Percepciones de las familias sobre experiencias vividas en el confinamiento por COVID-19. Estudio cualitativo de las familias con niños de 5 a 12 años que habitan en la ciudad de Babahoyo y Guayaquil.

Abstract

This work is a qualitative study on "Families and confinement by Covid 19", which was carried out in the city of Guayaquil and in the rural area of Babahoyo, with a sample of 6 families. It sought to understand the forms of family coping that were experienced during the quarantine by Covid 19 in the urban and rural areas indicated. It was a descriptive study through Life Stories, in which it was possible to identify the strategies used by families to overcome the crisis of the pandemic: identification of vulnerable people, family organization, disconnection of communication media, support between neighbors, among others. The ways of coping differed in the approach: in the city they were strategies designed for oneself as a family, while in the countryside there was a more community look. In addition, the difficulties experienced, both in the countryside and in the city, were identified: decrease in income, loss of jobs, overload in domestic tasks, isolation, access to health, the latter being the one that shows the greatest difference, evidencing the inequities between urban and rural in relation to access to services.