Toy Collection in Hospitals and The Recovery of Hospitalized Children: A Bibliographical Review

  • Greice Kely Oliveira de Souza Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências
  • Maria Margarete B. Martins Faculdade Anísio Teixeira de Feira de Santana
Keywords: Therapeutic Toy, Children, Hospitalization

Abstract

When children are hospitalized, they are removed from their daily milieu and are placed in an unknown and sometimes highly traumatizing place. Therapeutic toys and playing activities lessen the hospitalization process. Current research is a bibliographical review with a qualitative approach aiming at understanding the importance of toys in hospitals. Toy collection in hospitals is thus described and information on the use of toys by children is provided. An increase in hospital´s toy collects has been perceived together with the benefits of the therapeutic toy as an expression medium and as a healthy development condition stance for children.

Author Biographies

Greice Kely Oliveira de Souza, Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências
Enfermeira; Especialista em Unidade de Terapia Intensiva Neonatal e Pediátrico pela Faculdade de Tecnologia e Ciências – FTC, Feira de Santana – BA. E-mail: greicekely@hotmail.com.br
Maria Margarete B. Martins, Faculdade Anísio Teixeira de Feira de Santana
Enfermeira; Especialista em Gestão dos Serviços de Saúde da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana – UEFS, BA; Docente do curso de Enfermagem da Faculdade Anísio Teixeira de Feira de Santana – FAT, BA.
Published
2013-02-13
Section
Artigos de Revisão