WORLD JOURNAL OF ADVANCE
HEALTHCARE RESEARCH

*Tien Aminah, Retty Ratnawati and Tina Handayani Nasution

ABSTRACT

Background: Mental disorder is a syndrome of behavior patterrns or psychological person with clinical judgement, where the clinical symptoms cause distress such as pain, discomfort, discomfort, discomfort and organ dysfunction and disability in daily life activities for self-care and survival. Mental disorders do not caused death, but the severity of mental disorder can cause the inability and invalidity both in individually and in groups so it will inhibit the development of a country, and commonly the most of the mental disoeder occure in productive age. Currently there are still many cases of mental disorder who late to get the handling of health workers, because the family or community try to found alternative treatment before come to health care services. After a long time it was unsecessful heal and already spend a lot of cost, then the family’s mental disorders come to the health center so often it was late and diagnosed in a state of severe mental disorders. Many factors were influence a person in choosing health care facilities, both conventional health services and traditional health services. The objective: The purpose of this study to analyzed the factors that influenced the families who live with severe mental disorders patient to take traditional treatment. Methods: The design of this study was observational analytic using cross sectional approach. 100 samples in this study were collected by proportional cluster random sampling technique. The data were collected by using questionnaires. Results: Chi square test results showed that there was an influence of health beliefs (p value 0.005), family resources (p value 0.022), social resources (p value 0.025), family needs (p value 0.013), and evaluation of achievement needs (p-value 0.013) to the selection of traditional treatment among families who living with severe mental disorders. Multiple logistic regression test showed that the most dominant variable was health beliefs with p value 0.007 with OR 0.258. Conclusion: Based on the result of this research, it can be concluded that there are influence of health beliefs, family resources, social / community resources, family needs, and evaluation of the achievement of family needs on the selection of traditional treatment among family who living with serious mental disorder and the most dominant factor is health beliefs. The implication of this study is the improving of health beliefs especially among family who living with severe mental disorders will be more positive so they can select the right treatment for their family members who have severe mental disorders.

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