Supportive Therapy on The Family's Burden and Stress in Caring for Patient with Mental Disorder

DOI

10.2991/hsic-17.2017.27How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Effectiveness, Supportive therapy, Burden, Stress, Family, and Mental disorders

Abstract

Severe mental disorder has an impact on the family, the environment, the community, even the government, and the most feel is the family, because the family is the person who lives together with the patients. The main problem in the family is the burden and stress in caring them. Objectives: The purpose of this study is to see the effectiveness of supportive therapy on the family's burden and stress for caring the patient with mental disorder at home. Method : The research design used was quasy-experiment pre-post test with control group. The sample in this study is family who caring the patient with mental disorders at home, that according to the inclusion criteria, with a sample size was 24 respondents. Results: The results showed that supportive therapy effective to reduce the burden and stress felt in the family, with p-value=0.000. Conclusion: Every family who caring the patient with mental disorder must feel the burden and stress, so it is need to cooperate with the others to reduce it, such as all the family members, the environment, Puskesmas, and the Government.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Fajar Rinawati
AU  - Sucipto Sucipto
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DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Supportive Therapy on The Family's Burden and Stress in Caring for Patient with Mental Disorder
BT  - Proceedings of the Health Science International Conference (HSIC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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