Comparación de las estrategias de afrontamiento ante el dolor entre adolescentes y adultos con enfermedades reumáticas de un Hospital de Lima Metropolitana

Abstract

This research aims to determine if there are significant differences between the coping strategies used by adolescents and adults suffering rheumatic diseases. The participants are patients from a Metropolitan Lima Hospital. The sample has 60 patients; it was a small sample due to the small number of adolescents with the disease mentioned. Participants were divided in two groups; the first group has 19 adolescents, having an average age of 17 years. The second one has 41 adults with a mean age of 36 years. They were evaluated by the Pain-Coping Questionnaire (CAD-R) by the authors Soriano and Monsalve (2004). To compare the using of Coping Strategies among the sample of adults and adolescents the U Mann-Whitney test was used. The outcome shows there were not differences between Pain Coping Strategies in adults and adolescents with rheumatic disease. The descriptive results shows that Self-Assertion was the most used copy strategy.