Coping styles and perceived social support in couples contaminated with COVID-19 during the pregnancy

Abstract

Introduction: Until the moment it has not studied, how the couples experienced the fact to be contaminate with COVID-19 during the pregnancy.

Objective: To characterize the coping styles and the perceived social support, in couples contaminated with covid-19 during the pregnancy.

Methods: A quantitative, descriptive, not experimental, and traversal study was develop in the second semester of 2021, with a sample of 40 couples. The Interview in depth, the Observation, the Coping Styles to the Illness and the Social Support Questionnaire, was use to pick up information. The data it were process in the statistical package SPSS version 22.

Results: The 100% of the smokers used affective/distraction and all the patients with chronic illnesses manifested anxiety, depression and fear to die, when they were positive to COVID-19. In the couples, the women (68,6%) searching more information about COVID -19 that the men (31,4%).

In the case of perceived social support, the patients and the couples of the urban area, they referred high support perception, contrary to those coming from the rural area. In turn it prevailed the instrumental support and the informative-emotional one.

Conclusions: The antecedents of health and the sex, impacts in the confrontation to the illness. Equally to count with family and near friends, is an influence in the perception of the social support. Also, the kind of social support and the perception of the same one, rebound in the confrontation style to the SARS-CoV-2.