Abstract

CORTEZ-GOMEZ, Renata Gabriela  and  GARCIA-CHONG, Néstor Rodolfo. Therapeutic adherence in indigenous children with leukemia in Chiapas’s Pediatric Specialties Hospital. Alteridades [online]. 2023, vol.33, n.65, pp.123-134.  Epub Nov 24, 2023. ISSN 2448-850X.  https://doi.org/10.24275/uam/izt/dcsh/alteridades/2023v33n65/cortez.

The objective of this article is to describe the difficulties that arise in treatment, and at the same time to analyze the role of caregivers and support networks in adherence to treatment in indigenous children with acute leukemia. From a qualitative approach, the case study of a tertiary hospital in Chiapas was implemented, which, due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, resorted to telephone interviews with caregivers. This is the first qualitative research carried out in Mexico, revealing structural and cultural problems in adherence to treatment for childhood leukemia in the indigenous population, for which it is proposed that a comprehensive public policy on childhood cancer must go beyond the hospital care and contemplating care, the latter, seen as a sociocultural and political process that requires the intervention of the State to favor it.

Keywords : childhood cancer; treatment engagement; care; support networks; care policies.

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