The social vulnerability associated with the COVID-19 Pandemic: a study with citizens who resorted to a social emergency service in Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Guadalupe, Sónia
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Ribeiro, Filipa João, S. Machado, Mariana, Silva, Sónia, Pena, Mariana
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Emancipação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.uepg.br/index.php/emancipacao/article/view/18173
• topic: COVID-19; Serviço Social; Vulnerabilidade Social; Apoio Social; COVID-19; Social Worl; Social Vulnerability; Social Support

The present study aims to characterize the family, socioeconomic, and social support situation of citizens who used social emergency services during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The participants were 230 individuals that resort to Social Work of a Northern Portuguese institution. The participants were mostly women (77,8%; n = 179), aged between 20 and 85 years old. It was conducted an observational and correlational study, through an inquiry used to assess sociodemographic, socioeconomic, and institutional support variables, as well as Lubben's Brief Social Network Scale and Brief Resilient Coping Scale. The results evidence an aggravation of the socioeconomic situation of the participants with respondents more likely to be unemployed and to seek formal social support after the State of Emergency. Most presented a situation of severe material deprivation (97.4%), associated with a low level of informal support. There was an association between informal social support and resilient coping.