The Effect of Milieu Therapy towards Knowledge of Caregivers and Relaps Response Patients Mental Disorders in Hospital

Abstract

Patients with mental disorder need the regularly strong support system from their surroundings, one of the support system that most closely is the family including the parents and other people that live together with the clients. Knowledge of Caregivers about carrying patients with mental disorders is very important. Sometimes they faced some troubles because lack of knowledge how to care patient with the mental disorder,  This research aim is to know the effectiveness of milieu therapy toward Caregivers knowledge, attitudes, and the response of the recurrence for patients with mental disorder. The research methodology used a quasi-experiment pretest and posttest design.  Using by purposive sampling  35 respondents were involved in this study. The research took place in Jakarta, Indonesia. The results of research is that the knowledge of caregiver before and after the intervention of the very means where the P value, 0.000, There is no difference about attitude  caregivers before and after the intervention towards occurrence with P value is 0,402, There is a difference before and after intervention of caregiver to the patient for doing milieu therapy with p-value 0.000. Conclusion: Milieu therapy made the patient with mental disorder having activities in their daily living, so there is no time for thinking the past days that made recurrence.