Impacto en la estructura familiar de los y las estudiantes de la carrera de Orientación Familiar de la Universidad de Cuenca antes y durante la pandemia Covid-19

Abstract

This article presents a study and analysis of the impact produced by Covid-19 on the family structure, before and during the pandemic, understanding within the structure, categorization or type of family present in the study subjects, as well as the effects caused in the area of limits or borders, the performance of the roles of each member of the family, at the level of hierarchies in the different subsystems and the type of communication that remained predominant in the family interaction. In turn, established this set of characteristics, belonging to the family structure we allow ourselves to evaluate the level of functionality of each family, valued in two times, level of functionality before the pandemic and its counterpart, during the pandemic. In this way, after knowing the structural changes of the family in the presence of Covid-19, we establish strengthening measures for future coping to which the family system will have to be exposed. The study carried out in this research responds to the application of an instrument called "Questionnaire to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the family structure" that was applied to a population of 169 individuals, belonging to students of the Family Orientation Career of the University of Cuenca, based on a quantitative deductive study of a descriptivecomparative type which was executed during the period March – August 2021. Among the results, it is evident that 65.4% of the study population had improvements within their family system after the pandemic, 17.3% affirm that it remained the same as before, and 16.6% did nothing about it. Strategies adopted to address the effect of the pandemic on society should be implemented by strengthening coordinated work with the necessary mechanisms for the advancement of families.