Generational influence on the process of loss of family caregivers skills to minor emergencies. Pilot study

Abstract

Objective: To know the awareness of loss of skills caregivers in the family to minor emergencies related to the generational change. Methodology: The study was addressed from an ethnographic qualitative, descriptive design. They interviewed six informants belonging to two families in which there were at least three generations related to each other. The data was collected through a semi-structured interview. An analysis of the discourse of semantic type was made from a double plane: intracases and intercases. Main results: Most of the samples go to emergency departments by pathology of banal kind of motivations that lead to frequent this service are: go at own discretion, guided by the advice of others and derived from its health center. The entire sample is capable of telling some sort of remedy for the problem of health consulted, although few are still making use of these remedies. Conclusions: With regarding intergenerational knowledge, exists in both sequences although information with the advance of generations is lost. Finally, the totalities of the interviewees are aware of the process of loss of cultural knowledge, among the reasons stand out: the influence of the modern pharmacy, passivity by the population, lack of confidence in these remedies and the influence of Oficial Medicine. The study shows the relevance of the revitalization of knowledge and caregiving skills in the family in order to rationalize the frequency of emergencies.

Keywords

• Enfermería Transcultural
• evolución cultural
• familia
• urgencias médicas
• terapias complementarias