Social support, coping and burden of family caregivers caring for persons with schizophrenia in West Java province, Indonesia

16^th Clinical Nursing & Nurse Education Conference

November 21-22, 2016 Melbourne, Australia

Imas Rafiyah

Padjadjaran University, Indonesia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

Few studies conducted about social support, coping, and burden of family caregivers caring for persons with schizophrenia in Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to examine correlation between social support, coping, and burden of family caregivers caring for persons with schizophrenia. It was a co-relational study. Eighty eight family caregivers caring for persons with schizophrenia were recruited purposively from the Outpatient Department of West Java Province Mental Hospital, West Java, Indonesia. Data were collected with self-report questionnaires and were analyzed by Pearson�s product-moment correlation coefficient. The findings showed that there were significant positive correlation between social support and confrontative (r=0.68, p<0.01), optimistic (r=0.42, p<0.01), and supportant (r =0.46, p<0.01), but social support was significantly and negatively correlate with evasive (r=-.052, p<0.01) and fatalistic (r =-0.41, p<0.05). There were significant positive correlation between burden and evasive, fatalistic, emotive (r =0.50, r = 57, r = 38; p<0.01), but burden was significantly and negatively correlated with confrontative, optimistic, supportant (r=-0.40; r=-0.31, r= -36, p<0.01). Social support was significantly and negatively correlated with burden (r=-0.50; p<0.01). Maintaining optimistic coping, teaching problem solving coping, and providing support are recommended for family caregivers to reduce burden.

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