On some occasion we have told you about the good that makes hospitalized children a smile, entertainment, feeling good. Now him I Study on the effect of positive emotions in sick children confirms that granting their wishes makes them better.
The emotional and physical state of a chronically ill child with a poor prognosis improves for months thanks to his fulfilled wishes, also favoring the appearance of positive emotions in the parents. This is clear from the research, conducted at the Faculty of Psychology of the Complutense University of Madrid.
This study aimed to keep these children from the emotional stress that they live daily from illness and treatments and provide a stimulus that encouraged them to continue fighting. The experts wanted to know how effective it is fulfill a child's main desire when it comes to generating changes in your psychological well-being and that of your family environment.
72% of the children in the study (between five and 18 years old) had cancer and 13% needed a transplant. The main wishes in which this team of researchers focused on carrying out the study were the desire to have something material, to visit some place or country, and to meet a famous person.
Eating eels with a celebrity, being a policeman for a day, swimming with dolphins, parachuting, going to the hairdresser, La Moncloa, Santiago Bernabeu State or an all-inclusive hotel were some of the wishes fulfilled.
The positive effect of wishes fulfilled
After these wishes came true, even seven months later it was found that optimistic emotions had been enhanced and emotional and physical strengths developed. Greater well-being, confidence, hope, calm ... and on the contrary less fatigue, hostility and loneliness.
It is also important, because of the "rebound effect on your children" (although who knows what comes first) that the parents saw their gratitude and trust increased and they had a decrease in depression, fatigue or hostility that they had been experiencing since the beginning of the child's illness.
Forgetting about illness and hospital for a day is important for these children who need so much attention and love. The illusion, the smile, the joy can do them much good.
He I Study on the effect of positive emotions in sick children It has been promoted by the Small Wish Foundation with the support of the Official College of Psychologists of Madrid, a research team of the Complutense University of Madrid and funded by the Lafourcade Ponce Foundation for psychological well-being.
For all these reasons it is beneficial that the hospital has recreational activities that make your stay more enjoyable, and there are programs so involved in looking for the smile of sick children such as PayaSOSpital or smile doctors ...
I hope all hospitalized sick children see their wishes fulfilled, and that helps them improve. For parents, the greatest desire is that, and they, along with doctors and foundations like the previous ones, can help them to sketch that smile and to get excited again.
