A resiliência e sua forma de promoção em famílias que convivem com a doênça crônica

Abstract

Resilience refers to the ability of the individual / family to cope and to answer positively to the incoming adversity and risky to their health and development. Nowadays, with demographic and epidemiological transition that has occurred, there is a significant increase in the incidence of chronic diseases over increasingly younger people. Each day, more families are living with chronic disease, which causes loss, dysfunction and a definite change in daily life of the family. In this context, resilience is emerging as a promising concept in terms of prevention and health promotion to families. The aim of this study was to perform a bibliographic review about resilience and its forms of promotion in relatives of patients with chronic diseases. We analyzed national publications indexed in the databases LILACS, SciELO, Google Scholar, among others. The literature indicates that the resilience can be promoted, since its the result of common features that most people have. But these characteristics need to be well connected and developed. Considering chronic disease as an adversity, resilience emerges as an element of helping families. And to be promoted, it is necessary to skill health professionals. Resiliency should be used as a tool to assist and promote health during every contact with the carrier of the disease and their families.