SEVERE OR PROFOUND INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY: A QUALITATIVE INVESTIGATION OF MATERNAL COPING STRATEGIES
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The objective was to investigate coping strategies reported by a sample of Brazilian mothers of children with severe or profound intellectual disabilities. The few Brazilian studies on this object justified the present qualitative exploration of the theme. Fifteen mothers participated, recruited by convenience in health services from a municipality in the interior of the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Individual semi-structured interviews and a thematic content analysis were carried out. The results comprise fifteen themes, induced directly from the corpus; they were allocated into three pre-categories based on theoretical studies on coping. Predominant mentions of coping strategies concerned those centered on problem and interpersonal relationships, which were mixed with strategies focused on emotion. Our interviewees did not seem to consider themselves targets of policies that induce a comprehensive care for people with disability in the Brazilian Unified Health System, in force for about two decades, and whose effective implementation could help extrapolate care based predominantly, on parental responsibility in the views of the participants. They expressed demands for a greater effectiveness also from the sectors of social service, education and transport. They pointed out the need for greater social interaction and socio-community support, seeming to express expectations of a progressive cultural redesign of an ethics of care that fosters actions in the extra-family sphere, reducing their overloads. These aspects of the interviewees' statements can be addressed in the clinical management of their children. A progressively healthier coping with the condition they are experiencing would also benefit individuals with disabilities.
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