EVALUACIÓN DEL FUNCIONAMIENTO FAMILIAR EN HOGARES DE NIÑOS CON PARÁLISIS CEREBRAL. UNIDAD EDUCATIVA ESPECIALIZADA MARÍA BUITRÓN ZUMÁRRAGA – PORTOVIEJO

Abstract

Cerebral palsy is described as a group of permanent developmental disorders of movement for which family functioning can be affected by moments of stress or anxiety on the part of the caregiver, who are mostly parents. A descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional curricular integration work was carried out with the purpose of evaluating family functioning in the homes of children with Cerebral Palsy of the María Buitrón Zumárraga-Portoviejo Specialized Educational Unit, from December 2020 to May 2021. The universe consisted of 48 families of children suffering from Infantile Cerebral Palsy, a sample of 24 families was taken through simple random sampling. The results show that 71% of families are medium, 75% nuclear and 50% have a per capita of 100 USD, most are functional and moderately dysfunctional families. It is concluded that the application of the instruments of the instruments allowed to evaluate the families according to the number of members, ontogenesis, in addition, the families were classified according to their functionality through the application of the FF-SIL family functioning perception test.