Psychological Alterations of Caregivers of Intellectually Disabled Persons during COVID-19
Keywords:
COVID-19, family-intellectual disability, psychological alterations, coping.Abstract
Introduction: The new coronavirus, COVID-19, brought with it various changes and consequences within Cuban families. Having a child diagnosed with intellectual disability makes them more predisposing in the psychological field, due to the increase in this stressful event.
Objective: To determine the psychological manifestations in the caregivers of the intellectually disabled persons during COVID-19.
Methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study, observational and quantitative study was carried out with 53 caregivers of intellectually disabled persons from the popular council Caribe in the Guantánamo Municipality, Guantánamo Province, in the period from April to May 2020.
Results: Depression predominated as a state (42.3%), with a mean of 43.9%. Anxiety prevailed as a state (47.3%), elevated in 45.8% of the cases. Vulnerability in cases of stress as a symptom was present in 85.2% of the caregivers. 64.5% of the caregivers of intellectually disabled persons had a type of coping with COVID-19 focused on the disease.
Conclusions: Despite the existence of psychological alterations in the caregivers of the intellectually disabled persons, the type of coping focused on emotion in the face of COVID-19 favored mental health by avoiding symptoms such as anxiety, depression and other disorders, in addition to avoiding contagion with COVID-19 from family members.
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