Public Health of Indonesia
Vol. 3 No. 3 (2017): July - September

EFFECT OF SOCIO-ART WORKING GROUP THERAPY IN REDUCING THE SYMPTOMS OF HALLUCINATIONS IN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER

Lestari, Retno (Unknown)
Ahsan, Ahsan (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Sep 2017

Abstract

Background: Schizophrenia is a chronic illness with considerable impact on individuals and their families. One of the symptoms of schizophrenia is hallucination. The treatment goals are reducing the symptoms and maintaining the recovery from the effects of illness.Objective: This study aimed to analyze the effect of socialization and art-working group therapy in reducing the symptoms of hallucinations.Methods: This study used a pre-experimental design with one-group pretest-posttest involved 60 patients aged between 12 and 55 years diagnosed with schizophrenia in the Community-Integrated Health Care in East Java. The Symptoms of Hallucinations Checklist was used to assess the hallucination symptoms. Data were analyzed using Wilcoxon signed rank test.Results: Findings showed that there was a statistically significance difference between pretest and posttest score after the socialization and art-working group therapy with p-value 0.000 (p<0.05).Conclusion: Socialization and art-working group therapy had a significant effect in reducing the symptoms of hallucinations in patients with schizophrenia.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

PHI

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Subject

Public Health

Description

Public Health of Indonesia is an International, peer-reviewed, and open access journal emphasizing on original research findings that are relevant for developing country perspectives including Indonesia. The journal considers publication of articles as original article, review article, short ...