Well Being And Health During Pandemic

Resumen

The unprecedented severity and magnitude of the pandemic spread of the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 virus implied, as a measure for its containment, the lockdown of the entire Spanish population in their respective homes. From the Psychological and Psych pedagogical Attention Service of the University of Cádiz, a health promotion program called “Well-being and Health” was designed and implemented, aimed at two groups considered at risk in the context of health alert: students from the Senior University Class of UCA and women with a diagnosis of breast cancer. The objectives of the program were: 1) Promote the well-being of older students of the UCA community and women who belong to an association of women with adiagnosis of breast cancer, during lockdown due to the pandemic and 2) Evaluate the effectiveness of an online health promotion program. The research responded to a quantitative methodology, with a quasi-experimental design pre posttest, ex post facto. GHQ12, PHI and a Scale of Positive Emotions were used for data collection. For the analysis of the data, the SPSS 21 was use, and we used the non-parametric Wilcoxon test to evaluate the efficacy of the program. Statistically significant changes are seen in all the variables under study: psychological well-being and distress, positive emotions and subjective happiness. It is possible to conclude that participating in a health promotion program encourages an increasment of positive emotions in the participants; increases the psychological well-being and decreases psychological distress; as well as an improvement in the subjective happiness. These findings are promising because they allow us to conclude that participating in an online health promotion program, with an emphasis on a healthy lifestyle and training in relaxation techniques, protected people from the impact of stressful events associated with lockdown during the pandemic.