Classe hospitalar em oncologia pediátrica: articulação da neuropsicologia e educação

Abstract

According to current legislation, education is a stony right guaranteed by the Federal Constitution of 1988, and the State's duties are its guarantee without any distinction. However, several circumstances can interfere with the school attendance of children/adolescents, and among them, situations resulting from illness and hospitalization stand out. However, for these children, the educational right remains and is now offered through the so-called Hospital Classes (CH). In the scenario of childhood illness, cancer emerges as one of the pathologies that most affect children and has a significant prevalence and consequences, mainly resulting from treatment, in their quality of life, with acute lymphoid leukemia (ALL) being the most common type of cancer. common in this population. In the last decade, studies point to the existence of significant neuropsychological deficits in children surviving ALL.In this context of attention to the educational demands regarding the treatment conditions of this clinical group, the present research had the general objective of characterizing the main findings of neuropsychology and articulating them with the teaching practice of the hospital class (CH) in pediatric oncology in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Grande do Norte (RN), based on the presentation of four interdependent studies: (1) The policy of the hospital class in pediatric oncology in the state of RN: trajectory and profile; (2) Challenges and potentialities of the RN hospital class in the context of pediatric oncology: teachers' representations and experiences; (3) Contributions and concepts of neuropsychology in the practice of the pediatric oncology hospital class and; (4) Notebooks (volumes 1 and 2) of guidance to teaching practice in the pediatric oncology hospital class. The research is characterized as an exploratory qualitative nature, carried out through the analysis of documents and individual semi-structured interviews with 9 professors of the pediatric oncology hospital class in the state of Rio Grande do Norte - RN. The results from the studies highlight the importance of the contributions of school neuropsychology to the practice of the educational team of CH in the context of pediatric oncology, considering that the specialized educational support for this clinical group also contributes as an intervention to possible educational difficulties that affect this population. These results are expected to contribute to the construction of new meanings for teaching practice in CH, impacting in terms of the quality of education offered to the clinical public of pediatric oncology and, consequently, on the quality of life of children and adolescents.