This work aims to understand the use of Facebook digital media during the experience of illness, hospitalization and death. It is a qualitative research, through of Virtual Ethnography and narrative analysis. This practice contributed to: facilitate communication with family and friends; to reduce loneliness and isolation; strengthen bonds of friendship; recognize the virtual social network as a space for the c...
The aim of this study was to describe the profile of the families who go through the decision-making process of organ donation of their child. Data collection was made through the analysis of the handbooks from the Organ Procurement Organization (OPO) and statistically analyzed using the Qui-square test. The results show a predominance of nondonors (65%), greater frequency of deaths for violent causes (62%), pr...
;;OBJECTIVES:;; to understand the family's experience of the child and/or teenager in palliative care and building a representative theoretical model of the process experienced by the family.;;;;METHODOLOGY:;; for this purpose the Symbolic Interactionism and the Theory Based on Data were used. Fifteen families with kids and/or teenagers in palliative care were interviewed, and data were collected through semi-s...