Terapia assistida por animais para crianças que vivenciam uma doença oncológica como uma boa prática de enfermagem: revisão integrativa de literatura

Abstract

The incidence of neoplasms in the period that includes childhood comprises an increase of 1% per year, concomitant with the cure rate that permeates around 85% worldwide. In Brazilian territory, childhood oncological disease represents the third cause of death, and these numbers can be reflected in numerous factors, such as the lack of detection of the disease, culminating in the lack of early diagnosis (ANJOS; SANTO; CARVALHO, 2015) . Still, the child who experiences cancer, must receive hospital assistance to perform the necessary care and prescribed therapy, and, since hospitalization is a traumatic experience for any individual, especially when it covers the child audience, the nursing team has an important role in the implementation of differentiated strategies so that this experience becomes less traumatic, one of which is Animal Assisted Therapy (TAA). In view of the need to implement these strategies, there is also a need to carry out assertive activities, which have a theoretical-scientific basis for this, making use, therefore, of Good Nursing practices to execute them. That said, the aim of this study was to develop and validate an Animal Assisted Therapy protocol for children who experience oncological disease, based on the following research question: the development and validation of a TAA protocol for the child who experiences can oncological disease assist in less traumatic care as a good practice in nursing?