Cuentos ilustrados de información y motivación para niños que padecen cáncer.

Abstract

The objective of this research work was to design a collection of illustrated stories of information and motivation for children suffering from cancer. To fulfill this collection, the synthetic analytical method was used, which allowed analyzing all the information gathered through interviews conducted with specialists who had direct contact with the target audience. The same that was determined thanks to the statistics obtained from the Solca Núcleo de Quito Oncology Hospital, which showed that the most frequent cases of cancer occur in children from 5 to 7 years old. In addition, to considering the statistics of Solca, the documentary research was taken into account to confirm that the age of these children is indicated for the research work. Thanks to the contribution of parents and specialists, the topics to be treated in the stories were generated. For the design stage, the Ambrose Harris methodology was used, consisting of six phases: planning phase, research, idea generation, improvement, prototyping, and implementation, it was adapted to the needs of the project, starting from which due to was possible to obtain a creative solution according to the main objective. For the validation of the stories, a test was carried out on three children, whose resulting stories being informational and motivational didactic material, and was determined by the child and adolescent clinical psychologist, who said stories have psychoeducational and therapeutic purposes, recommended for use in individual and group psychological therapies.