Estrategias de Afrontamiento del Duelo en Mujeres Con Pérdidas Perinatales y la Construcción del Proyecto de Vida

Abstract

The present research aims to understand the coping strategies used in three (3) women between 20 and 40 years of age in the construction of their life project in the face of perinatal loss. To this end, a conceptual and theoretical description of issues on coping strategies, perinatal losses, mourning, perinatal grief and life project was used. In order to obtain information, a qualitative methodology with a narrative design was used, since it allows a study to be carried out through the experience reported by means of an interview, in this case the semi-structured interview which allowed the analysis of the discourse. In conclusion, the perinatal losses constitute for the three participants a traumatic and painful event, which requires family and marital support to overcome the loss, without saying that it is overcome. At the same time, similar coping strategies were identified, such as: avoidance and denial, which for all of them occurred in the first moment, subsequent self-control, search for social and family support and finally positive re-evaluation