Santoya AAA

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ABSTRACT

An interpretive methodological approach and elements of the research-action method were used in this research that shows the results of a study made with a group of families from Bayamo city which have a five years old or younger child with Down Syndrome (DS), with the objective of characterizing the significance of their birth. A purposeful and intensive, typical case sampling was chosen; 14 fathers and mothers were interviewed, 10 of them participated in the sessions of a Formative Group, guided by one coordinator and two observers, supervised by an expert in the planning, implementation and analysis of the intervention. The emergent topics detected aimed to the significance that has in the family the birth of a Down syndrome child; in the Formative Group some of these aspects and the difficulties in the functioning of the family were approached; the group reflection facilitated the incorporation of new analysis, cognitive and affective elements for the initiation of change processes in these families. Diagnostic Indicators of population, which according to their diagnostic and predictive importance, can be used in the design of other similar programs for community intervention linked to the Primary Health Care, Education, Community Extension among other, were identified, which is one of the most important value of this research.