Humanize the assistance to the hospitalized children and adolescents means to minimize the sufferings provided by disease and the typical stressing events of hospital experience. This study had as goal the effects investigation of a recreation program planned in a pediatric oncology unit waiting room about the children and adolescents behavioral repertoire. The proposed jokes referred to the disease and to the treatment. They took part 91 children and adolescents, exposed to cancer treatment, divided into three degree of age: Preschool, School and Teenager. The developed play materials aimed board the hospitable thematic. The planned recreation enabled a collaborative behaviors repertoire enlargement and of interaction, as well as a better adaptation to the adverse terms imposed by the hospitable environment and treatment events. The planned recreation can constitute a psychology systematic intervention activity, useful for the comprehension of how children and adolescent coping the disease and the treatment.
planned recreation; play; hospital waiting room; pediatric psychology
