Description
Background: Anxiety is used to describe feelings of uncertainty, uneasiness, apprehension, or tension that a person experiences in response to an unknown object or situation. Results of premilinary survey in Asylum of Southeast Sulawesi Province was found that almost every patient shows feeeling of anxiety. Based on the results of interviews to 10 patients with mental disorders in Melati and Delima Room was known that they feel anxious and miss their families. It happened because of hospitalization, long treatment, and they never visited by their families. This study aims to determine the relationship day of hospitalization with level of anxiety of disorders mental patients in Asylum of South East Sulawesi Province in 2015. Methods: This type of research is an analytic survey using cross sectional design. The population of this research was all patients with mental disorders who were being hospitalized in the Asylum of Southeast Sulawesi Province in April 2015 as many as 245 people, and 37 respondents were taken as samples by using purposive sample technique. Results:The results showed that there was a fairly strong correlation between duration of hospitalization with anxiety level of patients with mental disorder in Asylum of South East Sulawesi Province in 2015 by X2 hit = 6.894 > X2 tab = 3.841, p Value = 0.023 < α = 0.05 and the value of the coefficient φ ( Phi ) = 0.432 . Suggestion:Therefore, the authors suggest to the Asylum of Southeast Sulawesi Province to make a policy to reduce the anxiety level of patient with mental disorder in Asylum by build collaboration with their families about the importance of support systems
