2015, Number 2
Perception of Support in the Reconstituted Family: the Path to the Assembly
Montesinos-Guerrero MR, Madrigal-de León HG, González-Pedraza AA
Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 50-53
PDF size: 255.49 Kb.
ABSTRACT
Objective: to evaluate the perception of support in reconstituted couples in a Health Care Centre. Methods: descriptive, observational, cross-sectional study carried out from August to December 2014 in the “Dr. José Castro Villagrana” Health Care Center in Mexico City. Non-randomized sample by convenience, in couples in their second marriage or common-law union (in at least one of the members of the couple). The Basic Certificate of Family Identification (Cebif-5) with the items of identification, demographic factors and family apgar was applied, after previous informed consent. The Kruskall-Wallis test, with 0.05 of significance level, and the spss v. 18 program were used. Results: 30 heterosexual couples living in common-law union or remarried were included. The age ranged from 23 to 64 years in men and from 23 to 61 in women. There were five couples (16.7%) with low perception, eight (26.7%) with media perception and 17 couples (56.7%) with high perception. It was only obtained a relationship with statistical significance between the level of perception and the age for both sexes, in which: older showed better perception. Conclusions: more than half of the couples obtained a high level perception, however, the age influenced in the satisfaction level as well as support perception. The couple’s relationship is a challenge to improve as human beings, as well as to prevent difficulties such as divorce. There should be a substantive part of the clinical work in Family Doctors practice addressing these problems.REFERENCES
Street M. Metodología para la investigación de las familias ensambladas. El caso de Argentina. viii Jornadas Nacionales de Estudios de Población. Asociación de Estudios de Población de Argentina (aepa) [Internet] [citado 2014 Nov 18]. Disponible en: http://www.cepal. org/publicaciones/xml/8/28858/lcg2320_P_6.pdf