HOPELESSNESS EXPERIENCE PATIENTS OF TRAUMATIC SPINAL CORD INJURY (SCI) SURVIVORSIN JAVA TRIBE,
A STUDY OF PHENOMONOLOGY
Moch. Bahrudin1, Tjipto Suwandi2, Ah. Yusuf3
1Polytechnicof Health Surabaya, 2Faculty of Public Health, Airlangga University,
3Faculty of Nursery, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
Hopelessness is a negative assessment towards result to be achieved and powerlessness against an expectation. Hopelessness can occur in traumatic spinal cord injury survivors because of disability due to neurological deficit and a long time in healing. This condition can lead to mental disorders or emotional or act of suicide. Therefore the description of the experience of hopelessnesstraumatic spinal cord injury survivors …show more content…
(P5)
Dysfunction process of the family
To experience family dysfunction which was caused by inability to perform selfroles and inability of the family members to give respect for each members, as described in the following expression:
"My wife ever told me that she felt guilty, I told her to not saying that or I will slap her or even kill her, but I am still conscious, frankly speaking". (P1)
While inability to give respect between family members was described in the following expression:
"Sometimes when I ask my daughter to help me boil water for bath she did not do it directly until I asked her several times, it was like she did not respect her mother." (P3)
Support and selfmotivation as source of coping to face hopelessness
Source of coping for traumatic spinal cord injurysurvivors came from family support, environment, positive belief and motivationforactivity. Source of coping from family’s core was described as following expression:
"When my son not going to college or gets holiday, he and my husband always accompany me in my room and motivate me, well, everytimemy son and my husband did this my spirit arise again." …show more content…
Study by Chen(2011) stated that motoric weakness suffered by post traumatic spinal cord injury patientswas an important factor to cause depression. It was stated 61.3% of respondents who had badmotoric function suffered from depression post traumaticspinal cord injury, while 38.7% of respondents withgoodmotoric function suffered from depression.
Participants’ characteristic ofthe study had yet described the hopelessness experience of individuals who did nothave supporting systemsuch ashusband, wife or experience being left by people who loved.
Physical changes theme as result of hopelessness response
Physical changes as result of hopelessness werefatigue, anorexiaandinsomnia. Fatigue experience was expressed by participants as extremityweaker and sluggishpowerlessnessfeeling.According toNaess, LundeandBrogger(2012) fatigue was associated withpainand depression suffered by post traumaticspinal cordinjury patients. Its study stated there werethree manifestationsthatfrequentlyappearon the patients, namely depression 19%, fatigue 46% and pain 48%. Based on thecorrelationbetweendepressionandfatigue it showed strong relationship, while between painanddepression showed mid
A STUDY OF PHENOMONOLOGY
Moch. Bahrudin1, Tjipto Suwandi2, Ah. Yusuf3
1Polytechnicof Health Surabaya, 2Faculty of Public Health, Airlangga University,
3Faculty of Nursery, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
Hopelessness is a negative assessment towards result to be achieved and powerlessness against an expectation. Hopelessness can occur in traumatic spinal cord injury survivors because of disability due to neurological deficit and a long time in healing. This condition can lead to mental disorders or emotional or act of suicide. Therefore the description of the experience of hopelessnesstraumatic spinal cord injury survivors …show more content…
(P5)
Dysfunction process of the family
To experience family dysfunction which was caused by inability to perform selfroles and inability of the family members to give respect for each members, as described in the following expression:
"My wife ever told me that she felt guilty, I told her to not saying that or I will slap her or even kill her, but I am still conscious, frankly speaking". (P1)
While inability to give respect between family members was described in the following expression:
"Sometimes when I ask my daughter to help me boil water for bath she did not do it directly until I asked her several times, it was like she did not respect her mother." (P3)
Support and selfmotivation as source of coping to face hopelessness
Source of coping for traumatic spinal cord injurysurvivors came from family support, environment, positive belief and motivationforactivity. Source of coping from family’s core was described as following expression:
"When my son not going to college or gets holiday, he and my husband always accompany me in my room and motivate me, well, everytimemy son and my husband did this my spirit arise again." …show more content…
Study by Chen(2011) stated that motoric weakness suffered by post traumatic spinal cord injury patientswas an important factor to cause depression. It was stated 61.3% of respondents who had badmotoric function suffered from depression post traumaticspinal cord injury, while 38.7% of respondents withgoodmotoric function suffered from depression.
Participants’ characteristic ofthe study had yet described the hopelessness experience of individuals who did nothave supporting systemsuch ashusband, wife or experience being left by people who loved.
Physical changes theme as result of hopelessness response
Physical changes as result of hopelessness werefatigue, anorexiaandinsomnia. Fatigue experience was expressed by participants as extremityweaker and sluggishpowerlessnessfeeling.According toNaess, LundeandBrogger(2012) fatigue was associated withpainand depression suffered by post traumaticspinal cordinjury patients. Its study stated there werethree manifestationsthatfrequentlyappearon the patients, namely depression 19%, fatigue 46% and pain 48%. Based on thecorrelationbetweendepressionandfatigue it showed strong relationship, while between painanddepression showed mid