Improving the wellbeing of hospitalized children
Wellbeing in hospital
Ensuring the wellbeing of sick children and making life easier for their families during sometimes long and repeated hospital stays.
Therapeutic communication
& clinical hypnosis
Switzerland
Between 2018 and 2022, a hospital hypnosis training program was implemented within the Department of Children and Adolescents at Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), with financial support from Children Action. This program trained 75 caregivers in this technique, thus promoting better management of pain, stress, and anxiety related to illness or care. Its impact on young patients in pediatric wards has been significant, and hypnosis is now firmly integrated into care.
To continue this momentum and meet growing demand, the Foundation funds 30% of the position of a doctor trained in hypnosis. This support helps strengthen current services and develop this therapeutic approach in the care of sick children.
Turning a blood test into a snowball fight, inserting a gastric tube into a slide, or intense pain into a trip to the ends of the earth...
The challenge is ambitious, but brilliantly taken up by the children and trained professionals.
Sabrina
Switzerland
Playful visits
Visits from medical students who come for two hours a day, five days a week, to play, entertain and discuss with the children.
Art therapy
Art therapist, who uses painting, drawing, music, and other forms of mediation to help patients express their emotions, connect with their creativity, and improve their mental and physical well-being
Storyteller
Stories told to young patients for a moment of distraction and comfort.
School tutors
Service of home tutors to facilitate the resumption of the school year after sometimes long and repeated hospital stays
Support
Contribution to the Ronald McDonald
House for each night spent by the families of a child affected by cancer.
Family therapy
Family therapy and intergenerational psychological support program run by two medical therapists to help families cope with their child's illness
Within the pediatric onco-hematology Unit of the Geneva University Hospitals, the Sabrina project provides professional services to accompany sick children, relieve their parents, and meet the needs of the care teams. The following interventions are proposed:
In numbers
since 1996