New paths in pediatrics - The implementation of a Unit of Integrative Pediatrics at the Institute of Children and Adolescents, University of Sao Paulo

Pasqualucci, Paula Lage; Polastrini, Rita Tiziana Verardo; Seifert, Georg; Carneiro‐Sampaio, Magda; Filho, Vicente Odone; Santos, Angélica Carreira dos

doi:10.6061/clinics/2021/e3351

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“…The UPI’s work aims to promote mental health support, child-family friendly unit care, mitigation of medicines with problematic side effects, and giving patients and their parents an active part in the handling of the illness. 24 With this concept fully implemented, UPI offers regular external anthroposophic therapies and music therapy to children with chronic and complex conditions in an inpatient setting in the Childhood Cancer Institute ward of the University of São Paulo. Additionally, a mindfulness-based program for ambulatory patients is offered throughout the pediatric clinics.…”

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Perceptions of Health Professionals on the Implementation of Integrative and Complementary Practices at a University Pediatric Hospital in Brazil: A Qualitative Interview Study

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Matheus de Souza,

Tiziana Verardo Polastrini

et al. 2023

Integr Cancer Ther

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Background: Despite an increase in use of pediatric complementary and integrative health (PCIH), many healthcare professionals still have an inadequate understanding of such practices and consider their use inappropriate, which might thwart implementation processes. In a qualitative interview study we examined the feedback of conventional healthcare professionals about the integrative practices provided to pediatric patients by an integrative team in a pediatric oncological hospital. Methods: Fifteen semi-structured interviews were carried out with various conventional healthcare professionals in an university pediatric hospital in São Paulo, Brazil. The interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and pseudonymized. DSCsoft® and MAXQDA® software assisted in a profound qualitative analysis using the collective subject discourse and thematic analysis method in order to display participants’ perspectives on PCIH and the project in their hospital. Results: Interviewees acknowledged their lack of knowledge about PCIH practices and reflected on the limits of their care as well as on new possibilities PCIH could offer. PCIH was perceived by interviewees as an effective supportive tool of care to promote patients’ wellbeing, assist overall compliance, strengthen cooperation between professionals, children and their relatives and hence facilitated general patient care. Since PCIH was implemented in their clinic, perceptions led interviewees to wish for increased PCIH offering and a more profound integration of its therapists into the standard of care. Discussion: The coexistence of integrative and conventional practices in the conventional healthcare setting is important to give visibility to the possibilities offered by the integrative pediatrics field. Regular and constant encounters with integrative practices, as well as information access seem crucial to reach a wider openness for PCIH and subsequently a broader application and dissemination of it.

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