Background: Asthma is a chronic disorder of the airways that modify behavior response of persons and affect family function.
Objective: To determine if there is a disorder of the familial dynamics in asthmatic patients of Tamaulipas.
Material and methods: An observational, comparative, open and cross-sectional study was performed to determine: family categorization, family function and evaluation of conjugal subsystem. We included 300 persons who were 30 to 50 years old, male and female: 100 subjects with asthma diagnosis, 100 with diabetes type 2 and 100 healthy people.
Results: The asthmatic subjects' age average was of 45.67 years, complete nuclear family was documented in 15% of sick persons, women were the family head in 50% of the cases, we appreciated great family dysfunction in relation to: adaptability function (50%), participation (63%), family grow-up (61%) and feeling manifestations (64%). In 53% of the conjugal couple cases of the patients, do not carry out her family functions like: communication 59%, share out functions 59%, sexual satisfaction 60%, and making decision 59%.
Conclusion: It is only feasible to treat these patients when there is an active participation of the family members.