DAMPAK PSIKOEDUKASI PADA KEMAMPUAN KELUARGA MERAWAT PASIEN GANGGUAN JIWA DI RUMAH

Abstract

One of the obstacles to efforts to recover mental patients after hospitalization is the family's understanding of caring for patients at home where family behavior leads to isolation and confinement. One effort to increase family knowledge so that it is optimal is family psychoeducation. This study aims to determine the impact of family psychoeducation on the family's ability to care for patients with mental disorders at home. The research design was a quasi-experiment using a pre-post test design with a control group through family psychoeducation therapy. The sampling technique is purposive sampling. The sample for this study was 22 respondents from the intervention group and 22 respondents from the control group. Data was taken from respondents who answered a questionnaire created by researchers about cognitive and psychomotor abilities. Bivariate statistical tests in this study used t-independent and t-dependent tests. The results of the research were that the respondents were female (59.1%), had basic education (77.3%), and worked (65.9%). After being given psychoeducation, there was an influence of family psychoeducation on the family's strength in caring for mental disorders patients at home, p=0.000. This can be done by nurses as a nursing action for mental disorders patients after being treated in hospital.