Perceptions of alcohol and tabacco use among family members of ill childen: External survey by the maternal-infant hospital of guasmo sur. Guayaquil - Equador

Abstract

Nurses must always ask its clients about problems with the abusive use of alcool in its families, independently of the professional speciality. The Objective of this study was to describe the conception of the familly members of young children with problems of health that attend to an ambulatorial service about the habit of alcool and tobacco use. Nine familly members were interviewed and the interviews had been analyzed through the content analysis. The existence of alcool in the family arose as a complaint. Six of the nine families have consumers of alcool and tobacco in different generations. Interviewees that had identified recurrent behavior of alcool and tobacco consumption abuse had searched resources to stabilize and the change intrafamiliar dynamic without sucess. The main problem is the lack of authority of the women, typical of the latinoamerican family.