Resumen

CRUZ MARTIN, Omar; MEJIAS LEON, Mairelys  y  MACHADO MACHADO, Yurianely. Emotional characterization of hospitalized school children with chronic diseases. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2014, vol.86, n.4, pp.462-469. ISSN 0034-7531.

Introduction: emotions are a cognitive evaluation process about the context, the coping resources and the possible results of those processes. They comprise physiological, cognitive, social and behavioral factors; they are transient psychical states that make the human life colorful. They could be either positive or negative; the former benefits health whereas the latter tends to reduce it. Objective: to characterize the emotional wellbeing of children with chronic diseases who were admitted to the pediatric hospital in Villa Clara province. Methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in an intentionally selected sample of 18 children and their families. Interviews to children and parents, non-participant observation, free drawing, diagnostic inventory to measure anxiety and condition in children and the abridged depression inventory for children were all applied. Results: negative emotions such as anxiety, fear, sadness and worry predominated whereas positive emotions were much scarce. Conclusions: the study confirmed the effects on the emotional wellbeing, with depression and anxiety in the children who were studied at "Jose Luis Miranda" pediatric hospital in Villa Clara. The most common symptoms were fears and lack of confidence, unrest, dependency, anger, impulsiveness and difficulties to expressing love, and boredom and worries.

Palabras clave : emotional wellbeing; psychological wellbeing; subjective wellbeing; hospitalism.

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