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Accepted Paper:
In the silence of pain: ethnography with mothers staying in hospital with their child
Vera Mendonça
(UTAD)
Paper short abstract:
Having a child hospitalized is a stressful event for parents. Mothers often experience anxiety and depression during this time. This paper is about Mothers who are also women and work. How can they manage to be successful in this contemporary society. Ethnography can bring “insights”.
Paper long abstract:
Mothers have an important role in the promotion of their children's health. Having a child hospitalized is a stressful event for these caregivers and they often experience anxiety and depression during this time. Providing information about needs, intervention strategies that a health worker (e.g. social workers) can perform to reduce anxiety, stress and even pain brought as a result of the impact of a disease and child hospitalization.
This paper is about Mothers who are also women and work. How can they manage to be successful in this contemporary society and in what way can this triple role play affect their daily lives.
Ethnography about everyday lives of these mothers gives us the information that "knowing does not mean understanding or comprehending" but can be used as reflective instrument to a definition of a social problem.