Gouget DTD, Baptista TWF. Between urgencies and affections: researchWITH women caring for children undergoing leukemia treatment. Interface (Botucatu). 2026; 30: e250131 Doi: https://doi.org/10.1590/interface.250131
Abstracts
Clinical emergencies point to care aimed at the body’s ailments, where discomfort is expressed through organic pain. In addition to childhood illness, another pain demands listening and clinical care. Understanding the maternal experiences that permeate this pain and are translated into the affections of a mother – who generally accompanies the child during hospitalization – constitutes the objective of this article. Under the auspices of research WITH, I interviewed 11 women who cared for their children hospitalized with leukemia. Through interviews, conversations, and daily observations, I recognized the importance of providing these women with care, embracing them beyond the emergency room, fostering the maternal role no longer as a complementary subjectivity to the child undergoing treatment, but as a new subject for clinical work, with their own feelings and suffering.
Keywords
Maternity; Women; Hospitalization; Child care; Leukemia
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