| dc.description.abstract | Background: Results of preliminary studies that have been conducted by researchers at the Regional
Mental Hospital (Rumah Sakit Jiwa Daerah/RSJD) Surakarta show that RSJD Surakarta has
conducted the various therapeutic models which consist of group activity therapy over a period of one
month or four times a week on Thursdays. Data shows that there are cases of schizophrenia with total
number of 17,763 patients for some cases, such as hebefrenic schizophrenia, paranoid, catatonic,
residual, simplex, and others. While the total number of schizophrenia cases in 2011 reached 18,022.
Objective: To determine the effect of therapy group socialization activity to improve the clients
verbal communication skills in RSJD Surakarta after treatment.
Method: The design of this study is pra-experiment with post-test. The populations in this study are
schizophrenia patients with the total number of 211 patients based on medical records of people with
impaired verbal communication. Samples were set of 30 respondents by using purposive sampling
technique. The analytical tool used is descriptive analysis.
Result and Discussion: Based on a whole observations starting from observation the first session
(from session 1 until session 7), we can see the improving from average capability verbal
communication after conducted therapy group activities in the aspect of the socialization. Numbers
who are unable is 13 (43,3 %) , while who experienced the ability verbally are 17 (56,7 %). This
means that more than half (56,7 %) clients in RSJD surakarta already improved the ability to
communicate verbally after conducted therapy group activities socialization, and only 43,3 % clients
could be classified not to be able to communicate verbally in RSJD Surakarta
Conclusion: Results of Therapeutic Activity Group Socialization in RSJD Surakarta have improved
of verbal communication skills in terms of patients‟ schizophrenic withdrawn, and no negative effect
of treatment group socialization activities (syntax) of the verbal communication skills of the process
of patient schizophrenic withdrawn at RSJD Surakarta. | in_ID |
