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Estrategias de afrontamiento parental ante hijos internados en Pediatría del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca 2016

Abstract:

BACKGROUND: The family environment is the place where children are frequently cohabited, the presence of a sick child alters the daily lives of all family members, thus the demand strategies that help to cope with the stress generated in such a situation. These strategies are known as coping, which is nothing more than an adaptation of new behaviors that allow the family to deal with the various problems experienced. It is this reality that motivates the person who cares for the patient, an effort of work overload, intense levels of stress, among other adversities, and a weight of this should be a support for the patient to correctly attend to his treatment. GENERAL OBJECTIVE: Determine parenteral strategies coping with children hospitalized in pediatrics at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital. METHODOLOGY: A descriptive study was performed in the three-month period. It included a universe made up of all the parents who had a child hospitalized more than 5 days in pediatrics, Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. The method was the observation, the technique was the application of surveys to parents with a child hospitalized in pediatrics, the instrument was the application of the stress coping questionnaire (CAE, Sandin & Chorot, 2003). The analysis and tabulation of the results were coded in the SPSS V15 program. USE OF RESULTS: After analyzing the data from 221 parents differences were established based on their variables, resulting in the female sex in a high percentage with 85.1%, urban residence with 57.9% and in terms of educational level Most of the 39.4%. But independent of these the most used coping strategy was observed in the RLG with 32.6%, followed by 27% and the least affected by 4.1%. Regarding the time of hospitalization, the RLG and BAS strategies are less used a longer hospitalization time. CONCLUSIONS: It was determined that the main strategies of psychological coping used by parents was religion, while open emotional expression is welcomed by them.