Tell me about it: drawing as a communication tool for children with cancer

Tell me about it: drawing as a communication tool for children with cancer

Rollins JA

Journal Of Pediatric Oncology Nursing

2005

PedPal Lit; Non-U.S. Gov't Stress; (b) explore and compare the coping measures they use to manage these stressors; AdolescentArt Therapy Attitude to Health Child Child; and (c) examine the use of drawing to enhance communication. Participants included 22 children ages 7 to 18 years; Hospitalized/psychology; Communication; Comparative Study; Emotions; Female; Great Britain; Humans; Interviews; Male Neoplasms/nursing/psychology; Nurse-Patient Relations; Oncologic Nursing/methods; Qualitative Research; Research Support; Psychological/nursing United States%X As health-related research on children shifts from seeking information about children to seeking information directly from them; regardless of their ethnicity and other cultural comp onents; respond to the childhood cancer experience in a similar manner. The use of drawing enhanced communication through direct visual expression and/or through verbal expression via the "campfire effect."

2005

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