Percepção de Terapeutas Ocupacionais sobre suas experiências em telerreabilitação com crianças no Brasil durante a pandemia
Resumo
Objective: To describe the perception of Occupational Therapists about their experiences
in telerehabilitation (TR) with children who have sensorimotor dysfunctions in Brazil during the
pandemic. Methodology: This is a descriptive, cross-sectional quantitative and qualitative study.
The participants are professionals graduated in Occupational Therapy who work in Brazil and
who use the TR resource to offer care to children with sensorimotor dysfunction. Based on a
mapping of institutions, an online questionnaire with open and closed questions was implemented.
Afterwards, a dialogue began, through interviews conducted online using virtual platforms, with
three participants selected by convenience sampling to deepen the information about how
the TR occurred. Results: Occupational therapists developed TR actions to assist children
with sensorimotor dysfunction during the pandemic caused by COVID-19. All participants
expressed difficulties in developing and implementing technologies for interacting with families
and children remotely, but the process gradually evolved with adaptation on both sides. In
general, there is a positive assessment by therapists regarding the therapeutic experience, virtual,
mediated by technology: benefits for families, children and the therapist himself/herself through
the learning promoted in the use of equipment and applications. As resources used during
sessions in Occupational Therapy through TR are: online games, recreational activities, stories,
make-believe games, videos, movies and other resources from the child’s own home. The results
indicate factors that made TR difficult: lack of access to the internet by families, unstable web
connection, lack of physical contact with the child, preventing handling, especially with children
with more severe physical dysfunction, and impediment to the use of specific techniques for
handling. As favorable indicators related to TR are: greater proximity of the therapist to the
family; development of a more active interaction between therapist-parents; greater participation
of parents in the therapeutic process and acknowledge of the reality of the child’s home/life
context. It is important to point out that there are controversies about the benefits or otherwise of
considering parents as mediators of the therapeutic process in this modality of TR. Conclusion:
It is expected that the results produced in this research can contribute to the improvement of TR
practices in occupational therapy aimed at children with sensorimotor disorders, a modality that
is still new in Brazil.
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