Research project Children in child health care
The project concerns conversation patterns in an institutional environment, a pediatric oncology unit at a children's hospital. Of the 50 newly diagnosed children who come to the unit each year, five children have been selected and followed up while they were in the hospital.
For children who develop leukemia, this sometimes means taking samples several times a week and repeated treatment periods at the hospital. Sometimes these procedures are painful. Needle implantation in the port that the children have implanted on the breast is one of the procedures that the children find most troublesome. The procedure usually takes about 5 minutes, but with frightened children, it can mean more than 30 minutes of rising anxiety in the children. My study shows that different ways of interacting with children can alleviate this fear (Rindstedt 2010).
Project members
Project managers
Camilla Rindstedt
Universitetslektor, docent
