Cohesión y adaptabilidad familiar en pacientes mujeres drogodependientes

Abstract

According to the National Institute of Health, in the past women were excluded from most clinic research on drug use and, at local level this topic has been addressed from a general approach without gender differentiation. Given the raised problem, the aim of the present cross-sectional quantitative study is to describe the type of family cohesion and adaptability in female drug-dependent patients. The population comprises 37 women from 19 to 61 years old and with an average of 26 years, who belongs to two rehabilitation centers of the city of Cuenca: Exitus and 12 Steps. The research tool has become a sociodemographic sheet to gather basic information of the participants and measure the variables of family cohesion and adaptability. In addition, the research uses the FACES III scale (Olson et al., 1985) validated by Schmidt (2010). The result exposes that 19 drug-dependent women belongs to an independent cohesion type; In terms of adaptability, there are two predominant types: flexible and chaotic, these two with 12 drug-dependent women; Finally, 17 cases of women present a mid-range family type. When examining the findings, it is stated that, the type of family of independent cohesion prevails, which indicates the absence of affective union among the relatives. In addition to a chaotic and flexible type of adaptability, it indicates that in the families of the group under investigation there is no generalized stability.