ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to identify the level of motivation to stop of Narcotics, Psychotropics, and Addictive Substance (NPAS) patients at Social Home of Pamardi Putra Insyaf in Medan. METHODS: The study used descriptive method with 37 respondents. Sampling was done by consecutive sampling, which every subject meeting the criteria of inclusion is selected until the required sample size is achieved. Participants in this study are patient who have not dual diagnosis and recurring patient. The data were gathered by using questionnaires on demographic data, and Stage of Change Scale from the National Narcotics Agency. The result of univariate analysis showed that 24 respondents (64.9%) had low motivation to stop NPAS. CONCLUSION: Motivation to stop NPAS is very important to relapse prevention. Recommendations: Nurses can increase motivation patients to change positive behavior and motivation to get out of problematic behavior and learn adaptive coping mechanism to solve their problems
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Humans , Male , Adult , Motivation , Psychotropic Drugs , Opioid-Related Disorders/psychology , Adaptation, Psychological , Substance-Related Disorders/rehabilitation , Substance-Related Disorders/psychology , Surveys and Questionnaires , Substance-Related Disorders/prevention & controlABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to identify the severity level of the symptom and the distress of patients with hallucination at Prof. Ildrem Asylum in Medan. METHODS: The study used descriptive method. The sample were 99 respondents, taken by using consecutive sampling technique. The data were gathered by using questionnaires on demographic data, severity level of symptom, and distress. The result of univariate analysis showed that 67 respondents (67.7%) had low level symptom hallucination and 70 respondents (70.7%) had heavy distress. The result of bivariate analysis, using Chi-Square statistic test, showed that p-value=0.175. CONCLUSION: No difference of the distress level proportion among patients who are having a severity of heavy hallucination symptom. Recommandations: Nurses are expected to be able to help patients using constructive coping in controlling the hallucination in order to decrease the symptoms and its effects on patients and other people
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