Ritos y rituales ante las crisis del sistema familiar de niños oncológicos

Abstract

The aim of the study is to describe the rites and rituals of family's crises system cancer children. The approach is qualitative; was carried out a process of observation to identify regulatory and circumstantial crisis, family and institutional rites and rituals, cancer children, parents and other family members and hospital staff accompanying the area of pediatrics SOLCA-Cuenca participated, the sample was taken cases- type and experts for interviews. The information collected indicates that: the family's crises system are not unique to the disease. Parents before the cancer diagnosis evoke significant loss events, separation, chronic disease, which generates confusions and guilt. During phases of crisis or chronic norms crises arise as a result of family separation. The practice of ceremonies, routines, creating and implementing acts before or disease are not identified by families and hospital staff terminologies rite and ritual, however these actions give them a meaning,, a sense; and functionality linked to why? As a permanent fixture in the rites and rituals is the religious factor devotion to God and the Virgin. It was found that the performance of rites and rituals provide relief of oncological child and family, established patient connection and its ecosystem by improving their emotional state. In three of the four cases involved a single type of family ritualization of Roberts (1988) is not evidence.