Instruções Verbais e o Seguir Recomendações Médicas para Tratamento da Dermatite Atópica na Infância

The atopic dermatitis is a skin chronic disease with unknown etiology and high incidence in childhood. Following medical recommendations is an indispensable behavior to the disease control. This behavior can be understood as arule-governedbehavior process and the instructions as an important variable. The aim of this study is to present and discuss the instruction, as an antecedent variable that controls the follow of recommendations’ behavior by pediatric patients. This control was discussed in the interactions between children and their caregivers, through the description of different types of instructions and their consequences. Physical facilities and biological conditions, the social control and the role of reinforcement histories were described as variables that can change the control of instructions