Hepatic transplant in children
The social side-effects encountered by social service personnel in the process of evaluating families of children who require liver transplant
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https://doi.org/10.22491/2357-9730.125018Keywords:
Childhood hepatic transplant, social counterindicationAbstract
OBJECTIVE: To identify the nature of the main social side-effects of 89 families of
children who require liver transplant, and who were evaluated by the social service
with the program for hepatic transplant in children at Hospital de Clínicas de Porto
Alegre.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A quantitative research project was designed using
existing data from the registration form of social service, which contains information
regarding children who are candidates to transplant.
RESULTS: From a total of 89 families that were evaluated, there was an indication of
immediate social side-effects in 55 families, or 61.8% of the total; there was also an
indication of deficit in the category family relationships in 69.1% of these 55 families;
and 25.4% of these 55 families indicated a deficit in the category family cultural aspects.
Only one family did not indicate deficit in the category social and economic organization.
CONCLUSION: The results indicate the importance of the work of social service
personnel for the program of hepatic transplant in children at Hospital de Clínicas de
Porto Alegre. Of the 55 families that were evaluated the social service, and that
presented immediate social side-effects, 34 families, or 61%, were socially prepared
to have their child submitted to transplant as a result of the work performed by social
service.
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