2016, Number 2
Family functioning of some families’ group with an alcoholic member resident in Centro Habana, Cuba
do Livramento FDA, Fabelo RJR
Language: Spanish
References: 15
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ABSTRACT
Introduction: Alcoholism constitutes one of the most serious health problems worldwide. Its impact includes not only the person who suffers it, but families and society as well.Objective: To describe psychosocial characteristics of the family nucleusof origin and that are living together and its possible similarities ordifferences related to family functioning in families of alcoholicpersons of Centro Habana municipality, in the period of September to January of the year 2014.
Methods: The studywas based on a mixed design with the use of quantitative and qualitative methods. It was made a life stories retrospectiveanalyze of a group of 20 participants residentin Centro Habana (10 alcoholic patientsand 10 members of the family that were living with at their actual family nucleus) in the period between September to January of 2014.
Results: The 50% of the alcoholic subjects perceive his or her family of origin moderately dysfunctional. On the other hand, 40% of them perceive actual families with tendency to be dysfunctional. The 50% of the relatives consider that the families, which they live together, are dysfunctional.
Conclusions: The majority of the origin families presented a tendency to be moderately dysfunctional. The alcoholic subjects’ group perceive his or her actual families as functional, while the relatives consider them dysfunctional. It was found that among the origin and the actual families of the studied subjects there is a scarce connection.
REFERENCES
Hernández Pérez J, González Menéndez R, Chávez Gálvez Z. y González Jorge E. Tácticas de afrontamiento, patrones de consumo y funcionamiento familiar de los pacientes alcohólicos. Revista Hospital Psiquiátrico de La Habana. 2011;8(1) . Disponible en http://www.revistahph.sld.cu/rev1-2012/hph07112.html