Hubungan Ekspresi Emosi Keluarga dengan Kepatuhan Pengobatan Pasien Skizofrenia selama Pandemi Covid-19 di RS Universitas Sumatera Utara

Abstract

The role of family whose member suffers from schizophrenia is a real challenge. This condition can cause negative emotions such as feelings of desperation, shame, anger, guilty, etc. Family members sometimes show excessive expression to the clients which can influence patients' adherence to take medicines so that they will relapse. Patients should follow routine medication program, supported by good caregivers. The objective of the research is to find out the correlation between family's emotional expression and schizophrenia patients' adherence to take medication in Universitas Sumatera Utara Hospital during Covid-19 pandemic. The research uses descriptive quantitative correlation method. The samples are 50 respondents, taken by using consecutive sampling technique. The research instrument is questionnaire on demographic data, emotional expression, and adherence to take medication. The research is done in May, 2022. The data are analyzed by using Spearman rho correlation test. The result of the research shows that there is a correlation between family's emotional expression and schizophrenia patients' adherence to take medication (p=0.000; p<0.05; r =- 0.509). The conclusion that can be obtained is that high family emotional expression is closely related to low medication adherence in people with schizophrenia. The higher the family's emotional expression, the lower the adherence of schizophrenic patients to treatment, the lower the family's emotional expression, the higher the adherence of schizophrenic patients to treatment. Therefore, by knowing the relationship between the family's emotional expression and adherence to treatment of schizophrenia patients, it is hoped that the family can control the expression of emotions and always accompany the patient in taking treatment