Programme of Eradicating Pasung in Lamongan Through Community Mental Health Nursing Approach
- DOI
- 10.2991/icosihsn-19.2019.29How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- free from pasung, mental illness, community
- Abstract
Background. Pasung (physical restraint) in people with mental illness is commonly found in Lamongan. In 2014, Lamongan Government launched the 2017 Lamongan Free from Pasung program based on Community Mental Health Nursing (CMHN). The aim of this program was to free all patients in pasung throughout Lamongan. The purpose of this study was to describe the evaluation results of Free from Pasung program in Lamongan. Methods. This study used a descriptive design with a retrospective observation carried out on all patients in pasung in Lamongan Community Health Center during 2014-2017. Results. The number of mental illness patients in 2014-2017 was 3002 patients, 186 (6.2 %) were in pasung, consisting of 127 men (68.3%) and 59 women (31.7 %). At the end of 2017, all patients in pasung had been released. Discussions. The community-based 2017 Lamongan Free from Pasung program is a very important program and has been proven to be successful in releasing all patients in Pasung. Conclusions. This program should be carried out continuously to evaluate the possibility of re-pasung cases and early detection of new pasung cases so that interventions can be carried out as early as possible.
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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 - Abdul Rokhman AU - Nur Hidayati AU - Moh. Saifudin PY - 2019/10 DA - 2019/10 TI - Programme of Eradicating Pasung in Lamongan Through Community Mental Health Nursing Approach BT - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Sustainable Innovation 2019 – Health Science and Nursing (IcoSIHSN 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 130 EP - 133 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icosihsn-19.2019.29 DO - 10.2991/icosihsn-19.2019.29 ID - Rokhman2019/10 ER -