Cambios psicosociales en las familias de los empleados de una empresa de distribución farmacéutica diagnosticados con cáncer.

Abstract

This research work uses a non-experimental qualitative approach, of exploratory scope. This study aims to know the “psychosocial changes in the families of employees of a Pharmaceutical Distribution company that have been diagnosed with cancer”. Methodological processes of the investigation for the gathering of information were maintained such as observation techniques, focus groups and in-depth interviews. These methods were used in order to identify the family's feelings regarding the oncological process of the family member and how this process affected the family structure, skills and tools that the family uses for health coping through support networks and working conditions of the cancer patient. Through this process it was known the feeling of the families involved, as well as the feeling and perspectives of the cancer patient, since being affected families, they manage to develop processes of coping and transformation that allow them a new way of understanding life, the relationship with oneself and others, linking the information found to the theory.