Narrativas resilientes frente a la sobrecarga emocional atravesada por familiares cuidadores primarios de mujeres sobrevivientes al cáncer del Sur de Quito en el período 2024-2025

Abstract

Cancer is a situation that can come unexpectedly, where solutions must be sought until it is overcome and thus this can help to have personal growth. Each person seeks how to maintain a balanced state of mental health, but it depends on several aspects of how to do it and not fail? Being considered a catastrophic disease is only related to "death" which unleashes a series of misunderstood emotions such as anguish, fear, stress, anxiety that often influence daily life, not only does it talk about the patient who suffers from it but also those who are around them, a process of overcoming involves close people such as our primary family, nobody reacts in the same way, nor do they have strategies already established for something unexpected, but still the will to want to move forward is present. The resilient narratives taken into account in this research start from primary caregivers, where attention is paid to the emotional overload they have gone through in the process of overcoming the disease, emphasizing the importance of the effects that can occur in caregivers. The use of the qualitative method allows an understanding of detailed experiences together with semi-structured interviews that provide the necessary information on the experiences reported by the participants.