Estrategias de afrontamiento en pacientes varones diagnosticados con trastorno de consumo de sustancias psicoactivas del Centro Especializado en Tratamiento de Adicciones Renacer en Paute-Azuay, en el periodo 2022-2023

Abstract

Coping is defined as any dynamic cognitive and behavioral effort, in constant change, that the addict generates to control external and internal demands valued as overflowing the individual's resources. The present study aims to describe the coping strategies of male patients diagnosed with psychoactive substance use disorder at the Renacer Specialized Addiction Treatment Center in Paute-Azuay. Specifically, coping strategies are studied as a function of sociodemographic variables and variables related to psychoactive substance use. The research is developed from a quantitative approach, descriptive scope and nonexperimental design, with 44 male volunteer patients from 18 to 65 years of age from the Renacer Specialized Center for Addiction Treatment, who met a series of inclusion and exclusion criteria. The Spanish adaptation of the Revised Ways of Coping Scale, elaborated by Lazarus and Folkman (1984) in its original version (Ways of Coping Inventory) and a sociodemographic questionnaire were applied. The results obtained show that at a general level the strategies of acceptance of responsibility and positive reappraisal predominate in the patients, while confrontation is the least employed strategy. With respect to sociodemographic variables, greater use was found of positive reappraisal strategies, acceptance of responsibility, distancing, self-control and seeking social support. On the other hand, with respect to the variables related to drug use, in general, a greater use of the strategies of seeking social support, flight and avoidance was found.