Family has a role in the caring of schizophrenia patient at home. Schizophrenia patient havea clinical condition which can be the factors to be hospitalized or at home. The family ability was alsoa burden for the patients care. The purpose of this study was to know of the correlation of the clinicalconditions of schizophrenic’s patient and the family burden who has family members with schizophreniaat Psychiatric Polyclinic of Asylum of Jambi Province. The design used cross sectional. The sample sizewas 95 families who have family members with schizophrenia and selected by purposive sampling. Thevariables were characteristic of schizophrenia patient, patient clinical condition, and the family burden.The collected data of family burden used Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI). The data were collected onJuly 23 until August 12, 2015. The data analyses used correlation. Family burden correlated withfrequent of inpatient psychiatric hospital (r = 0.30) and positive and negative symptoms of schizophreniapatients (r = 0.26), but not correlated with the sick duration of schizophrenia patient (p = 0.475).Thus, nurses were expected to provide health education which was aimed to improve the knowledge andability of the family to care the patients at home.
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