Size of Human Figure Drawing and Goodenough-Harris Scores of Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Pilot Study

Paine, Patricia; Alves, Elaine; Tubino, Paulo

doi:10.2466/pms.1985.60.3.911

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“…Painful procedures increase anxiety in children (3), and there are studies where drawings have been used to assess children's anxiety. Anxious or fearful children have been shown to draw smaller pictures than nonanxious children (4, 5), and children have been shown to draw younger children when experiencing distress (6). There is also some evidence that anxiety affects the placement of the figures in drawings (7).…”

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Children's drawings as a measure of anxiety level: a clinical pilot study

Puura¹,

Puura²,

Rorarius³

et al. 2005

Pediatric Anesthesia

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“…In this study drawings were used to measure children's anxiety in a specific, anxiety‐provoking situation of having an ear operation. The method of scoring the drawings consisted of assessing features that according to the literature would be affected by anxiety or distress (4–7, 10).…”

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Children's drawings as a measure of anxiety level: a clinical pilot study

Puura¹,

Puura²,

Rorarius³

et al. 2005

Pediatric Anesthesia

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“…For example, aside from their potential use to assess mental maturity, human figure drawings have been used for the assessment of perceptual-motor functions and emotional issues in both children and nonverbal adults (Kay, 1978;Laosa et al, 1973;Menks, 1973;Platzer, 1976). Human figure drawings can also be used projectively to explore body image and personality status (Culp, Packard, & Humphry, 1980;Paine, Alves, & Tubino, 1985;Pope-Grattan, Burnett, & Wolfe, 1976;Zucker, Finegan, Doering, & Bradley, 1983). In addition, they can be used to facilitate understanding and communication among family members or to assess intervention effects (Culp et al, 1980;Worden, 1985).…”

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Validity of Preschoolers' Self-Drawings as an Index of Human Figure Drawing Performance

Short-DeGraff¹,

Slansky²,

Diamond³

1989

The Occupational Therapy Journal of Research

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Fifteen preschoolers were administered the Goodenough-Harris Drawa-Person Test (DAPT) (Harris, 1963), Ayres and Reid's (1966) assessment of selfdrawings, and the General Information subtest, which is a verbal measure of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) (Wechsler, 1967). High correlations were obtained between the man, woman, and man/woman converted scores of the DAPT and the self drawings that were scored with Ayres and Reid's procedure. These data indicate that Ayres and Reid's selfdrawing scoring system may be a usejui replacement for the longer DAPT when clinicians want a quick and easy method of assessing a child's figure drawing abilities. Low correlations between all of the figure drawing and WPPSI scores are consistent with other data that indicate thatfigure drawing ability is more highly correlated with the performance than with the verbal components of IQ tests.

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“…Situações de stress e ansiedade vêm sendo avaliadas também pelo Desenho da Figura Humana (DFH). Com a escala Goodenough-Harris de avaliação do DFH em crianças com câncer, constatou-se significativa redução na altura, largura e área em relação aos desenhos de crianças em escolas e pacientes de cirurgia geral, o que foi atribuído em parte à ansiedade (Paine, Alves & Tubino, 1985).…”

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O desenho da figura humana é válido para avaliar ansiedade em crianças?

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Loguercio²,

Caumo

et al. 1998

Psicol. Esc. Educ.

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ResumoA ansiedade vem sendo avaliada de diferentes formas, entre elas através do Desenho da Figura Humana (DFH). A principal escala de avaliação do DFH foi idealizada por Handler, possuindo divergências quanto a sua validade entre os pesquisadores. Este trabalho tem por objetivo, então, avaliar a validade desta escala, comparando desenhos de crianças em situação pré-cirúrgica e desenhos realizados por crianças de um grupo controle. Os pontos obtidos nos desenhos também são comparados aos escores no Inventário de Ansiedade Traço-Estado para Crianças (IDA TE-C). Foram investigados desenhos de 106 crianças, de idades entre 7 e 13 anos, de ambos os sexos. Os resultados mostram haver diferenças significativas somente entre as escalas de ansiedade traço-estado entre os grupos controle e experimental. Os índices de ansiedade de Handler não evidenciaram diferença entre os dois grupos nem correlacionaram-se com as escalas do IDA TE-C, o que invalida tal escala para crianças da nossa população. Defende-se a criação de uma escala própria para crianças. Palavras-chave: ansiedade, desenho da figura humana, validade. Is the human figure drawing a valid measure for children's ansiety assessment? SummaryAnxiety assessment has been one ofthe uses ofHuman Figure Drawing Test (HFD). The Handler HFD rating scale for anxiety, an important scoring system in this field, has generated several divergent studies about its validity. The main goal of this study was to investigate the validity of Handler indexes through an experimental model comparing HFD of 53 pediatric elective surgery patients, from 7 to 13 years old, to a control group. Results showed significant difference between experimental and control groups in tenns of STAI-C but no differences in tenns od HFD. This data, associated with the lack of significant correlation between STAI-C and HFD, suggest that Handler rating scale is not valid for our children.

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Size of Human Figure Drawing and Goodenough-Harris Scores of Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Pilot Study

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Children's drawings as a measure of anxiety level: a clinical pilot study

Children's drawings as a measure of anxiety level: a clinical pilot study

Validity of Preschoolers' Self-Drawings as an Index of Human Figure Drawing Performance

O desenho da figura humana é válido para avaliar ansiedade em crianças?

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