La pandemia generada por el Covid-19 y la decisión gubernamental de confinar a los integrantes de las familias en el seno del hogar trajo consigo innumerables transformaciones en las dinámicas familiares. El objetivo de este artículo es revisar literatura sobre afectaciones de la pandemia en la comunicación, la cohesión y la adaptación intrafamiliares. Se trata de una revisión narrativa de literatura dirigida a profundizar en las categorías en estudio, realizada en las bases de datos ScienceDirect, Scopus, ProQuest, Dialnet, Redalyc, SciELO, Google Scholar, Researchgate, en inglés, español y portugués. La ecuación de búsqueda utilizada fue: [Covid-19 AND (“dinámicas familiares” OR familias AND (adaptación OR comunicación OR cohesión))]. Entre los resultados se encuetra que afloraron sentimientos y emociones encontradas, que se expresaron como dificultades en la comunicación, y crisis situacionales que culminaron en diversos procesos de afrontamiento, con variaciones desde adaptación inefectiva hasta resiliencia, así como comportamientos éstos, relacionados directamente con las características de funcionalidad y redes de apoyo previas. Se concluye que la convivencia prolongada mostró transformaciones en las dinámicas familiares, resaltando la importancia de las redes de apoyo.

Objective. To identify socio-academic and family functionality factors – communication, cohesion, and flexibility – as predictive stimuli of adaptive coping of nursing university students in the post-COVID-19 pandemic. Methods. A cross-sectional descriptive study with stratified random sampling, with participation by 416 Nursing students from a private university in Pereira (Colombia), who answered a self-completed sociodemographic characterization survey, the Olson et al., communication scale, FACES III scale to assess family cohesion and flexibility, and the Calixta Roy CAPS scale to assess coping and adaptation capacity. Binary logistic regression and Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit were performedto determine predictors of success, using SPSS v.26. Results. The profiles of the participants showed a higher proportion of women (78.4%), ages between 21 and 30 years (57.5%), young people who study and work (60.1%), and those who have an academic session on Friday and Saturday (67.5%). Nursing students perceive that their families communicate efficiently and satisfactorily (85.8%), have strong cohesion with a tendency towards attachment (73.6%) and flexibility, show a tendency towards chaos (70.7%) and have adaptive coping (48.5%). The success predictors for adaptive coping were female sex (p=0.007), academic session Friday and Saturday (p=0.042), occupation, study, and work (p=0.026), socioeconomic strata 4.5 and 6 (p=0.041), good or very good communication (p=0.001), balanced family cohesion (p =0.048), and balanced family flexibility (p=0.039). Conclusion. This study found that good family functionality and having adequate socioeconomic conditions were predictors of higher coping and adaptation capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic in the nursing students who participated in the study.