Family autonomy and relationship with health professsionals - doi: 10.4025/cienccuidsaude.v11i1.18857

Abstract

Children suffering from chronic disease have changes in their lives for frequent hospitalization and this fact requires frequent contact with health professionals. Assistance to children health is a right and can be consolidated when recognize and respect their particularities and their families, based on rights and responsibilities of professionals, with humanization and citizenship. The present study aims at understanding how autonomy of the family of the child with chronic disease is guaranteed in relation to health professionals. This study was based on Symbolic Interactionism as a theoretical framework and Bardin’s Content Analysis as a methodological framework. The relational process between family and professionals can be positive or negative, so this process is structured in two thematic units: “Interactions of limiting citizenship”, organized in subtopics ‘careless’, ‘devaluation’ and ‘hope to be accepted’, and “Promoting the interactions citizenship”, developed from subthemes ‘availability of professional’ and ‘inclusion in care’. It’s necessary to sensitize health professionals to look holistically at the family and insert it as a partner in care.