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Título

ONCOVID: INFORMATION ABOUT CANCER CARE DURING THE PANDEMIC

Introdução

The covid-19 pandemic challenges health professionals to reorganize care for cancer patients and their families - such as clinical care as consultations, tests and procedures and also psychological care on social and emotional scope.

Objetivo

In this context information is essential, being used to educate and clarify about covid-19, avoiding departure or pause of the treatment by patients and their families and being used by health professionals as a support and coping tool.

Método

Beaba, a non-profit organization for demystifying cancer and providing information about the disease and treatment, developed information materials on covid-19 using the precepts of Information and Communication Technology.

The creation and production of the information materials followed the Agile Methodology, using the World Health Organization (WHO) as a scientific source of information and Information Architecture and Design for adequacy, accessibility and usability of the material, respecting the characteristics and particularities of the pediatric oncology environment.

Social media were used to broadcast them, enabling quick and accurate updates, considering the frequent changes resulting from new discoveries about the disease.

Resultado

Information materials covered general topics such as symptoms, transmission and risk groups of covid-19 and specific topics such as care for immunocompromised patients and protective measures for health professionals in the oncology field and educational materials were also created as communication support tools.

Conclusão

More than 50 thousand people were impacted by the materials through dissemination on the Instituto Beaba's digital channels and by the shares made by patients, health professionals and institutions. The information could be used as a prophylactic and protective way, especially at a time when one of the best “medicines” available is education.

Palavras-chave

Covid-19, Education, Information, Communication, Patients, Families, Health Professionals