Research Paper
Year: 2020 | Month: October-December | Volume: 5 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 237-241
Family’s Knowledge of Schizophrenia at Poli Clinic of Central Mental Hospital in North Sumatra Province
Srimis Leini1, M. Yaziz Zuhdi Siagian2
1,2Nursing Study Program, Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan Rumah Sakit Haji Medan
Corresponding Author: M. Yaziz Zuhdi Siagian
ABSTRACT
Families in the care of clients with Schizophrenia disorder act as the primary support system that provides direct care to any (healthy - sick) client. Most families ask health workers for help if they can no longer afford to care for them. Therefore, family-focused nursing care not only restores the client's condition but aims to develop and improve the family's ability to overcome the family's health problems. This research aims to determine the family's knowledge of outpatient Schizophrenia in the central asylum area of North Sumatra Province year 2011. The study used a descriptive design. This study's population is the entire family of schizophrenic patients who are on the road medicine at Poli Clinic of Central Mental Hospital in North Sumatra Province. The sampling in this study was to use accidental sampling techniques as many as 25 respondents. Data collection techniques using questionnaires. Data that has been obtained manually with step editing, coding, tabulating, scoring, and data analysis. As a result of the well-knowledgeable study of 5 people (20%), respondents were enough as many as nine people (36%), fewer respondents as many as 11 people (44%). Based on the results of this study can be concluded that the family's knowledge of Schizophrenia is knowledgeable less. So it is expected to the family to enhance further and deepen understanding about Schizophrenia.
Keywords: Knowledge, Family, Schizophrenic Mental Disorders