INVASTIGATION OF PATIENT AND HOSPITAL PERCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN PARTICIPATING IN EDUCATION AT THE HOUSE OF COMPASSION
An Erratum to this article was published on December 31, 2024. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/iojpe/article/1562292
Abstract
This study was conducted to determine the perceptions of children, one of whose relatives was undergoing chemotherapy treatment and who participated in education at the House of Compassion, about the patient and hospital perceptions and their views on the House of Compassion. Case study design, one of the qualitative research designs, was used. Criterion sampling, one of the purposeful sampling types, was used to determine the study group. The study group consisted of 20 children who participated in the training at the House of Compassion in a hospital in Ankara and one of whose relatives was undergoing chemotherapy treatment. In the study, "Demographic Information Form" was used to collect information about children and parents, "Child Interview Form" and "Children's Pictures" were used to determine children's perceptions of patients, hospital and House of Compassion. The data obtained were analyzed using the descriptive analysis technique. As a result of the research, it was observed that children knew the definition of the hospital, the personnel working in the hospital, and the practices carried out, and emphasized the healing and therapeutic aspects of the hospital. Children reported coming to the House of Compassion to play games, have fun, and have a good time. It was determined that children felt happy and sound in the House of Compassion and that they liked the House of Compassion. As a result, it can be said that the House of Compassion has positive effects on children's perceptions of the patient and the hospital.
Keywords
Children, patient and hospital perception, cancer, chemotherapy, house of compassion.
Ethical Statement
This research has an ethics committee permit issued by the Inonu University Ethics Committee on 01.08.2022 with the decision numbered 15/10. All rules specified in the “Higher Education Institutions Scientific Research and Publication Ethics Directive” were followed throughout the entire process from the planning to implementation of this research, from the collection of data to the analysis of the data. None of the actions specified in the second section of the directive, titled “Actions Contrary to Scientific Research and Publication Ethics”, were carried out. Scientific, ethical and citation rules were followed during the writing process of this research; no falsification was made on the collected data. This study has not been sent for evaluation to any other academic publication environment. There is no conflict of interest among the authors of the research. In addition, the authors declare that they do not have any conflict of interest with other persons, institutions or organizations.
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