Senses and meanings attributed to Hope by children with orofacial clefts and their family caregivers.
Mariana Martire Mori, Camila Moraes Garollo Piran, Alana Vitória Escritori Cargnin and 4 others
PMID 42566664WHAT IT FOUND
Children with orofacial clefts linked hope to better self-image, overcoming sadness, and becoming healthcare professionals.
Caregivers linked hope to faith, inner strength, and seeing the child rehabilitated. Play elicited these meanings; it was not tested as treatment.
Key findings
01Children linked hope to expecting good things, overcoming sadness, and changing their self-image.
02Children also linked hope to a professional future, often wanting to become the professionals who care for them.
03Caregivers linked hope to inner strength based on faith and spirituality and to confidence that the child would be rehabilitated.
STILL TO COME
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What it does not show
The study included 16 children and 26 caregivers from one association, so it cannot show how common these views are elsewhere. Children were aged five to nine and could understand questions; adolescents and children with a physician-attested cognitive deficit were excluded. Only the child's primary family caregiver was interviewed, so other family members' views were not captured. The play session was used to collect children's accounts, not tested as a treatment, so it does not show that therapeutic toys improve hope or rehabilitation outcomes.
Declared interests
The paper reports financial support from CAPES. The supplied text does not report a commercial sponsor or author conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the play-based session as proof that therapeutic toys improve hope or rehabilitation outcomes. This qualitative study described meanings only and did not test whether play changed anything.