The Burden of a Family in Caring For Members Who Suffer From Mental Disorders

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210415.033How to use a DOI?

Keywords

family burden, caregiver, mental disorder, caring

Abstract

Changes and advancement of people daily living have extremely complex consequences, thereby constructive adaptation processes are necessary in dealing with it. However, not all individuals have the ability to constructively adapt to a change so that it can ultimately cause mental disorders. Exploration of the family burden as a support system for the patients is very important because of the high dependence of the patients to their family in dealing with the disease. Even though it is also a responsibility for the family members to be concerned of the patients condition. This study aims to explore the burden of a family in caring for a family member who is mentally disturbed. A phenomenological approach was applied in this qualitative research. In-depth interviews were concluded after obtaining data saturation. Data saturation was acquired after interviewing 5 families of patients. Data analysis conducted using the Collaizi method which resulted in four themes, namely: The burden experienced since the beginning of patients ‘caring, raging emotions as n negative yet hidden impact of caring, the economic problems due to costs needed to treat the patients and the feeling of failure in caring which disrupt the treatment progress. It was concluded that treating mentally disordered patients could also burden the families, notably the psychology aspect. Therefore the cooperation of the family is a crucial matter to provide in caring for the sufferers.

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© 2021, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Sri Martini
AU  - Ira Kusumawaty
AU  - Yunike
AU  - Detiana
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/19
TI  - The Burden of a Family in Caring For Members Who Suffer From Mental Disorders
BT  - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Health, Social Sciences and Technology (ICoHSST 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 150
EP  - 154
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210415.033
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210415.033
ID  - Martini2021
ER  -