PREFERENCIAS EN DISTRACCIÓN DE NIÑOS CON CÁNCER

Introduction: children with cancer diagnosis receive nursing interventions that produce pain and fear. Objective: to describe the distraction preferences of children and adolescents between 7 and 16 years with cancer, in a hospital in Bogotá. Methods: qualitative descriptive exploratory, intentional sampling with 9 participants from 7 to 16 years with cancer diagnosis. There was approval of ethics committees. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, including recording, observation, field notes, transcription. Stages: Collection, Identification and categorization of descriptors, Pattern analysis, Central themes. Results: were obtained 206 descriptors, 11 categories, and three topics. The central node was “distraction for me” that contains three explanations from the participant: how they like to be distracted, what they see and think about the venipunctions, and from what they would prefer in distraction to forget what they feel. Conclusions: the preferences in types of virtual and auditory distraction of children are to choose according to their preferences: music, television series, movies, virtual games, with headphones hands-free headbands. They said that distraction is important in punctures to feel less pain, think about something else and get out of that environment.