HUBUNGAN ANTARA PENGETAHUAN TENTANG SKIZOFRENIA DAN STRATEGI KOPING DENGAN BEBAN PSIKOLOGIS PADA FAM

WAHYU NHIRA UTAMI,

2011 | Skripsi |

Varieties of responsibilities, roles and life style changes during the process of care giving lead to more varieties of effects for the family caregivers of people with schizophrenia. The effects were high family expenses, the feeling of boredom, helplessness, anger but in the other hand family caregivers hated themselves for having those emotions towards people with schizophrenia. This was called psychological burden. The aim was to explore the relation between knowledge about schizophrenia and coping strategy with family caregiver’s psychological burden. A total of 71 family caregivers aged above 17 years old and took people with schizophrenia to Puskesmas Kraton Yogyakarta, Puskesmas Kalasan Sleman and RSKD Atma Husada Mahakam and family caregivers who joined Komunitas Peduli Skizofrenia Indonesia forum participated in this research. Knowledge about Schizophrenia Questionnaire, Ways of Coping Checklist-Revised and Burden Scale were used. The hypothesis was there is significant relation between knowledge about schizophrenia, coping strategy with family caregiver’s psychological burden. Multiple regression analysis is used and confirmed the hypothesis. The family caregiver’s knowledge about schizophrenia and psychological burden were low and aimed

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