"Now we are going on a Journey": Meaning-Making with a Healthcare Game during Toddlers' Medical Treatment. Issue 3 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Høiseth, Marikken; Hopperstad, Marit Holm
• Is Part Of: Child care in practice. Volume 22:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 257
• Page End: 276
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Caregivers -- children -- healthcare games -- meaning-making -- medical treatment -- multimodal text -- social semiotics -- toddlers -- qualitative research; Child care -- Periodicals; Child health services -- Periodicals; Child welfare -- Periodicals; 362.709416
• DOI: 10.1080/13575279.2015.1054784
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1357-5279

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study explores how toddlers and caregivers make meaning with an interactive healthcare game on a tablet during medical treatment. The data material consists of video recordings of six nebuliser treatments of two children. Using a social semiotic perspective and a multimodal analysis, the study identifies how children and caregivers make meaning with the game, defined as a multimodal text, through creating text events. The findings illustrate how the participants' meaning-making in the text events appears to have a narrative and an analytical orientation. It is suggested that the potential of healthcare games lies in the creation of text events where the game constitutes a shared focus. When children and caregivers share their meaning-making orientations, the medical treatment can be brought into the background.