Psychoeducation on Adherence to Treatment of Schizophrenia Patient During Covid-19 Pandemic Era

Abstract

Background:The outbreak of Covid-19 is really disrupting people's thought and their ability to face the problem clearly and their mental health could be disturbed.They will go under their circumstance of fear, start to panic, and leads to poor decision making. This fear and anxiety could affect and lead to any negative behavioural changes of patients to the belief of being infected by avoiding going to the hospital as a source of contagion place.Methods: Case study from an inward patient, adult woman that suffered fromschizophrenia for more than 10 years and got injection of antipsychotic routinely once a month. During the early time of Covid-19 pandemic, the patient and her family are afraid of coming to the hospital to get her injection. After one month of not getting the injection, she started to relapse again and hospitalized for 10 days. Results:The difficulty faced in handling this case is to provide an understanding of the patient and family about adherence on her continuity treatment. Therefore, by giving a psychoeducation using a telemedicine is consideredto the most suitable way to handle this patientto gain more insight about her willingness back to get the monthly treatment during the pandemic situation.