Proceso de duelo y estrategias de afrontamiento ante la muerte de familiares a causa de la COVID-19 en los estudiantes de 8vo y 9no semestre de una universidad privada de Quito en el período 2021 -2022

Abstract

Grief manifests itself with emotional disturbances and can give rise to physical manifestations, which sometimes include intermittent and nonspecific pain, and it also occurs in depressive syndromes generally manifested as back pain, neck pain together with chronic nonspecific muscle pain. The general objective of the present investigation was to analyze the influence of coping strategies in the grieving process in the face of the death of relatives due to Covid-19 in eighth and ninth semester students of the psychology degree at a private university. of Quito in the period 2021-2022. We worked under a qualitative approach, descriptive and exploratory research through a survey of eighth and ninth semester students. The results show that the death of the deceased person turned out to be a painful process, whose main emotional reaction was sadness, the physical reaction was lack of energy, the cognitive reaction was disbelief, while the main behavioral reaction was crying. Therefore, look at the coping strategies that had a great influence on the process: Acceptance, escape, social support and planning. The same ones that provided tools that would facilitate the mourning stage to be successfully overcome without opting for pathologization. On the other hand, positive reappraisal and confrontation were strategies that did not have much involvement.