Nuñez MCS, Pérez CC, Castro PM

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: Divorce or separation in the couple is a negative event that extensively affects the children and in which affections may appear in the emotional, school-related, social and family scopes.
Objective: To identify psychological symptoms and signs in schoolchildren as related to divorce-separation of their parents, and to identify potentially pathogenic factors or events appearing after divorce-separation and to explore the attitudes assumed by primary caregivers regarding this event.
Methods: A descriptive-exploratory study was carried out between November 2013 and March 2014 in a health area of San Miguel del Padrón Municipality. The sample was made up of 16 students from the second cycle. Various psychological instruments were applied to children, such as the interview, free drawing, family test, among others. We also worked with primary caregivers and the children's teachers.
Results: We verified the presence of affectations in schoolchildren aged 9-12 in the emotional area, in the school and in the social and behavioral relations associated. Potentially pathogenic factors and events following divorce-separation were identified, such as post-marital couple, reconstituted family, change of residence, school and friends, loss of purchasing power, and more.
Conclusions: The most significant symptoms and signs identified in the children, and related to their parents' divorce or separation, were anxiety, sadness, irritability, anguish, difficulties in attendance, low academic index, difficulties in relationships with both adults and other children, unquietness, aggressiveness, loss of appetite, sleep difficulties, recurrent headaches, nausea and vomiting. Potentially pathogenic factors or events were a post-marital partner, reconstituted family, change of residence, school and friends, loss of purchasing power, forced inhabiting with family members of one of the parents, and decrease in the father's action, with whom they do not inhabit in most of the students.