Análisis descriptivo del duelo desautorizado en la experiencia de duelo perinatal en la maternidad, periodo 2024

Abstract

The present research project was carried out with the objective of knowing in detail the processes of perinatal grief that mothers go through in Ecuador. In this way, we sought to evidence the perceptions and if the phenomenon of disenfranchised grief is exercised within our social context. For this, a survey was conducted to learn about these experiences based on perinatal loss in mothers aged 20 to 35 who resided in the metropolitan area of Quito-Ecuador, along with a mother from the Middle East. This interview consisted of 12 questions where it was possible to know their perception about multiple factors that are rooted in said perinatal grief, such as the perception of society towards mothers who go through these processes and the accompaniment or spaces of containment that they could have received in their own experiences of grief. A data analysis was carried out based on a qualitative model, comparing the responses of the mothers looking for a pattern or trend that would allow us to know if there is evidently the exercise of disenfranchised grief. It was possible to identify that there are other ways of exercising a disenfranchised grief in Ecuador, such as a normalization of this, and that there are multiple causes for which the grieving processes that mothers go through can become complicated.