Estrategias de afrontamiento familiar frente a la depresión que vivió el miembro adulto mayor durante el primer mes de confinamiento por COVID-19.

Abstract

The present investigation aims "To analyze the coping strategies that families have adopted against the elderly member in a situation of depression due to the lockdown because of COVID-19 in the city of Guayaquil, in order to identify the actions that have been positive". The methodology used for the research responds to a mixed approach in which the sample was made up of 100 elderly people and 91 families in relation to the survey instrument and 6 elderly people as well for semi-structured interviews. For the surveys 3 scale instruments were used, for the survey directed towards elderly people and were used the Geriatric Depression Scale of Yesavage and the Perceived Social Support Scale of Procidano and Heller, in addition, the family coping scale of Olson, McCubbin and Larsen was used for the family survey. The study showed that quarantine increased the possibility of depressive symptoms or developing existing ones, but the coping strategies of the family and the adult and elderly themselves did not always have a direct impact on the depression of the elderly people.