The Relationship Between Family Support and Family Burden Towards Readmission

The number of readmission of psychiatric patients in Padang, West Sumatera, is still very high. This is due to some factors such as the family support and family burden in taking care of the family members with mental disorder that are not good enough. Meanwhile, the Readmission itself can increase the finance and the service quality of the psychiatric hospital. The purpose of this study was to know the relationship between family support and family burden towards the readmission of psychiatric patients at HB Sa'anin Padang Psychiatric Hospital. This study was analytic descriptive with cross-sectional study approach. The sample of this study was 106 respondents. This study used purposive sampling technique based on the inclusion criteria in which the family did the readmission < 1 month or ≥ 1 month at HB Sa'anin Padang Psychiatric Hospital. To collect the data, the researcher used family support and family burden questionnaire. To analyze the data, the researcher used Logistic Regression. The researcher found that there was a significant relationship between family support and family burden towards the readmission (p value <0.05) in which the most dominant variable was the family burden towards readmission. The inadequate family support in taking care of family members with mental disorder would have an impact on patients’ healthcare at home. Ideally, family should become the source of support for family members. On the other hand, for those who didn't have good understanding of patients’ healthcare, it could be a burden and a problem for the family to take care the mental disorder patients so that the family decided to do readmission for the mental disorder patients. This study is expected to give an input for the psychiatric hospital to improve the education for the family about the mental disorder patients’ healthcare at home after the patients return from hospital.