Comportamentos construídos e disseminados no palhaço de hospital

Silva, Maria Rosa da; Marques, Maria Cristina da Costa; Penha, Alexandre Vinicius Xavier; Caires, Susana

doi:10.1590/1413-81232022276.13902021

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“…Among healthcare professionals, hospital clowns also interact with child patients and their families in children's hospitals. Hospital clowns, commonly referred to as medical clowns or clown doctors, are performers working in a hospital setting to alleviate the fears or stress of the patients [18]. In particular, children can experience stress or anxiety that can be caused not only by their medical condition but possibly by being separated from their family and being in an unfamiliar situation.…”

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Improving children’s patient experience with a mobile hospital clowning application – Initial user experiences from the clowns’ perspective

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eHealth solutions are increasingly being developed to support patient care and improve patients’ experiences (PXs). Recently, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the shortage of nurses in several countries, including Finland, have further underscored the need for new digital services. In the context of children’s hospitals, care-supporting services include hospital clowns who work to provide emotional support for children and improve their PXs. Hospital clowns are known to have a positive impact on children’s PX. The Finnish hospital clown organization Sairaalaklovnit ry has published its first mobile application Sairaalaklovnit to provide a digital contact platform to reach patients remotely via messages. The application is mainly targeted at child patients and includes both entertainment and messaging facets for communication between child patients and hospital clowns. The two main user groups for this application can be considered to be child patients and hospital clowns. This article presents the data and results found during a study related to the user experience (UX) of the Sairaalaklovnit application. With the research questions, “Which aspects influence the UX of the hospital clown application?” and more specifically, out of the two user groups, “How do Finnish hospital clowns experience the new hospital clown mobile application?”, this study aims to gain an understanding of how Finnish hospital clowns experience the newly developed application for expanding physical contact with patients into a digital form. The qualitative data used in this article were collected in the summer of 2022 through an online questionnaire (n = 5) and semi-structured interviews (n = 3) with hospital clowns. The hospital clowns were mostly satisfied with the published application, but some deficiencies were mentioned. Most of the complaints were related to technical issues. However, the application was seen as a useful tool that can bridge physical and digital contact with children. The developer has been made aware of the technical issues and fixes expected in the future. For future research, it can be beneficial to rerun the UX study for the hospital clowns and possibly with a larger sample to see whether there have been any changes after the technical issues have been solved. Moreover, studying how child patients, which constitute the other user group, experience the new application, can prove to be beneficial for possible future development.

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Improving children’s patient experience with a mobile hospital clowning application – Initial user experiences from the clowns’ perspective

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Motivations and Personal Traits Can Predict Self-Efficacy of the Clown Therapist: A Descriptive Study

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Corrado

2022

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The individual and collective perception of self-efficacy in clown therapists is fundamental in order to be able to be active, restrained, energetic and defocused, if necessary, without being overwhelmed by any problems patients might have. The present study evaluated both the incidence of motivational and dispositional functions on the level of perceived self-efficacy with a sample of 259 Italian clown therapists who were administered The Volunteer Self-Efficacy Scale, the Volunteer Process Model and the Italy Personality Inventory. The significance of a hierarchical linear regression model of perceived self-efficacy was tested. The results showed that the value orientation of the operators mainly influenced the level of perceived self-efficacy, that is, the search for actions with a high social meaning, rather than the orientation towards situations and experiences that allow one to expand one’s knowledge and promote one’s own person. Profiles with higher perceived self-efficacy were associated with the trait of dynamism and conscientiousness, while a person’s vulnerability was found to be a significant negative predictor of self-efficacy. An additional significant predictor was the experience of the clown therapist. The results of the study also showed a positive and functional role of the synergy conferred by teamwork. The group mitigates the emotional difficulties of the individual and supports him/her by orienting him/her technically and compensating for any inexperience in the field of animation in sensitive contexts, such as hospital wards with serious and vulnerable patients, such as children.

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Comportamentos construídos e disseminados no palhaço de hospital

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Improving children’s patient experience with a mobile hospital clowning application – Initial user experiences from the clowns’ perspective

Improving children’s patient experience with a mobile hospital clowning application – Initial user experiences from the clowns’ perspective

Motivations and Personal Traits Can Predict Self-Efficacy of the Clown Therapist: A Descriptive Study

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