Objective:

To determine the coping and the family functionality in permanent disability in the 39th Medical family Unit of the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS) in Tabasco during 2014 - 2015.

Materials and Methods:

An analytical transversal observational Study was made to 65 permanent disability right holder’ workers, done in both genders from 18 to 69 years old. The Family Functionality (FF - SIL) was evaluated. A Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSI) was used for Coping, with prior informed agreement. A descriptive statistic was done and the Pearson X2.

Results:

the patient’s studied characteristics were: media age, 39 years old, (89.8%) male, (84.7%) with couple, (98.3%) literate, (64.4%) Catholic religion, (57.6%) idle, (67.8%) from 3 to 10 thousand pesos monthly income, (50.8%) with 2 children, (76.3%) owned a house, (30.5%) associated comorbidity, (78%) nuclear family, (50.8%) scattered family, (54.2%) with 3 or more economic dependents, (57.6%) with a working family member, (44.1%) from a 25 to a 49% in a permanent disability , (37.3%) the IP provoked injury was in a lower member, (25.4%) has a permanent disability from 12 to 18 months, (74.6%) work accident risk, (91.5%9) permanent partial type declared disability, (9 3.2%) belong to a functional family, (69.5%) applied an active coping stress. It was observed that functional families use an active coping stress in a 66.1%, X 2 =.76, gl;l with p: .001, statistically significan!

Conclusions:

Patients with a permanent disability report presented a Family Functionality related to the strategy used for active coping with stress.

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