- The children have been playing with the "Healthy Monsters" album and stickers, which identifies evil characters with health problems and teaches healthy habits.
- This initiative is part of the Ribera group's Humanization Plan and its responsible healthcare model, which promotes health education and was a finalist in the 16th Corresponsables awards.
In the days leading up to Halloween, Ribera hospitals have distributed a game to their pediatric patients that uses classic villains to offer health advice. The initiative, called Healthy Monsters, consists of an album and stickers featuring illustrations of some of the most popular monsters, each representing a common childhood health problem. The game provides tips and recommendations for preventing and treating these issues, promoting health education and healthy habits.
This action is part of the Ribera group's Humanization Plan, as it makes the visit to the consultation or the stay of pediatric patients and their families more pleasant, providing them with entertainment and emotional support during waits for diagnostic tests and consultations, as well as admissions, while educating them about health.
The Healthy Monsters are classic Halloween characters, such as a skeleton, a vampire, a pumpkin, a witch, and other traditional villains of this spooky night, who represent problems or deficiencies like low calcium and weakness, poor diet, or mental fatigue, among others. For example, the werewolf suffers from insomnia, and the mummy from dehydration. Through this activity, these characters, like the others, receive advice on how to combat their problems, such as establishing a regular sleep routine, drinking enough water, eating five servings of fruits and vegetables daily, getting some sun each day, consuming calcium-rich foods, and only taking medication when properly prescribed.
“In addition to entertaining and making the wait and stay of our patients and their families more enjoyable, this activity, framed within the Halloween festivities, promotes health education and self-care in a fun way, encouraging a healthy lifestyle from an early age,” Ribera representatives stated.
Activities such as Healthy Monsters, framed within the group's Humanization Plan, aim to contribute positively to the recovery of patients, accompany them during treatment or admission days, reduce anxiety levels, improve mood, and also bring traditions, festivities and special celebrations closer to patients who have to stay in the hospital.
The Healthy Monsters initiative was a finalist in the XVI Corresponsables Awards, and received a special mention at the awards ceremony, which was held at the Pontifical University of Comillas, Madrid, last Tuesday.
