Programa recreativo en casa, como estrategia para canalizar los niveles de ansiedad en los niños, producto del confinamiento obligatorio por el Covid-19.

Abstract

The objective of this work is to design and implement a recreational program applicable in the home, with the purpose of reducing children's anxiety levels, caused by the mandatory confinement of the COVID-19 pandemic. The essential part of the study lies in looking for mechanisms to contribute in some way to improving the stay at the children's home, through games, physical exercises, relaxation spaces, manual activities, virtual meetings with friends, in the same way it is intended to guide them in the good use of their free time, to improve family relationships, to overcome worries caused by prolonged confinement at home. Six children participated in this study, all residents in the urban area of the municipality of Pamplona (Colombia), according to the interview and the test applied in the diagnostic stage, it is evident that due to the preventive isolation measure, these children are going through a difficult stage to endure, with episodes of fear, anguish, stress, for not understanding exactly what is happening, generating in them emotional consequences. This research is descriptive, because it reviews and studies the behavior of social phenomena, for this case the anxiety behavior of children due to the phenomenon of confinement in their homes due to the health problem that the country is going through. Results yielded clear evidence of how through recreational activities such as games, physical activity, music, crafts and family sharing, children's behaviors can be improved and their mood can be changed.