Atividade assistida por animais : possibilidade de intervenção de enfermagem no processo de humanização hospitalar.

Abstract

The actual health concept is not limited to the disease absence, but involves the individual psychosocial well-being, and this way, several services are offered to the patient seeking to promote the well-being and enabling your recovery. Against this, the Animal-Assisted Activity, which consists of introducing animals into treatments within health institutions, has being getting more emphasis and value, because these interventions can promote relaxation and happiness moments, benefiting patients, companions, relatives and the nursing team itself, making the hospitalization moment less traumatic and more humanized. This way, this paper is based in the Animal-Assisted Activity area, with the objective of identify the patient vision about the benefits of the Animal-Assisted Activity, in the hospital internment process. For the project development, the qualitative search method with exploratory approach was used and as instrument for data collection was decided to apply a half-structured interview with internees patients in a school hospital in the Rio Grande do Sul center region. After the Speech Analysis technique was applied to show the data analysis for this paper. The results showed that the pets are considered as family members and the major part of the patients wants to be visited by their pets during the hospitalization period. Therefore, we can conclude that the animals are having a big importance for keeping the people mental and physical health, with that, highlights the patients desire to be visited by their pets during the hospitalization period, being clear that in the patient view this practice brings different benefits as the partnership, affection and healing aid, besides the humanization in the hospital care.