Abstract

GUIMARAES, Tathiane Barbosa  and  ARAUJO, Tereza Cristina Cavalcanti Ferreira de. Psychoeducational intervention with electronic games: a study with relatives of cancer patients. Rev. SBPH [online]. 2014, vol.17, n.2, pp. 106-122. ISSN 1516-0858.

Psycho-educational interventions are adopted in health, to offer comprehensive and preventive care. For this purpose, several strategies, including those offered by the expansion of Information and Communication Technologies, such as internet and websites, are used. Considering such perspectives, an investigation were conducted with the following objectives: a) to describe, analyze and understand the perception of the child, a cancer patient relative, about cancer and its treatments; b) propose a psycho-educational intervention for this child (family member of a patient with cancer); c) design electronic games, available on a website, to be adopted as a mediating tool to psycho educational intervention; and d) evaluate the benefits and limitations of this intervention. As results, before the intervention, predominant coping strategies were focused on emotion and lack of information and emotional support. Over all, the intervention favored the expansion of resources to deal with the experience of family member cancer. Further research is recommended to identify the uses of electronic tool sin health.

Keywords : psychological intervention; electronic games; psycho-oncology; information and communication technologies; prevention.

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