Abstract
To describe the process of creating and implementing a support group for families with children in a pediatric intensive care unit. A professional experience report described using a management and planning tool. This is a pioneering initiative in the hospital. The application of the tool enabled the delineation of the scope, justification, location, frequency, responsible persons, approach, and budget. After its implementation, the group enables significant interaction between health professionals-families and families-families, favoring the formation of therapeutic bonds and stimulating social and emotional support networks. The tool effectively planned the group and highlighted its effects on family coping and the relationships between professionals and families.
Highlights
The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a place surrounded by routines that restrict the family in the direct care for the child, which can be frightening and threatening to its members
Many of these support networks are formed inside the hospital, emphasizing the family support offered by professionals and the network formed among the mothers of hospitalized children, who interact and join forces to support the family facing the child’s illness(2)
The 5W2H tool enabled the operationalization of the initial idea, delimiting and subsidizing all the necessary steps for its implementation, predicting the objective, responsible people, place, activities that would be performed as well as the necessary budget for the development and maintenance of the weekly activities, in order to observe flaws that could prevent the proper implementation of the project
Summary
The pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is a place surrounded by routines that restrict the family in the direct care for the child, which can be frightening and threatening to its members In this context, the family seeks support to bear the emotional burden and avoid burnout. The use of support group technology in pediatrics has been adopted as a valuable way to stimulate interaction, provide support, enable interpersonal relationships, and favor the adaptation to the situation of having a hospitalized child in the family. It provides a space for the expression of feelings, needs, expectations, and anguish, stimulating the formation of social support networks(3)
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