Community Based Pasung Release on Schizophrenia

community base release from pasung schizophrenia

Authors

  • Titik Dyah Agustini Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia; Dr. Soetomo General Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia; Public Health Office, Tuban, Indonesia, Indonesia
  • Azimatul Karimah Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia; Dr. Soetomo General Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia, Indonesia
  • Ivana Sajogo
    ivana.sajogo-2016@fk.unair.ac.id
    Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Ciputra, Surabaya, Indonesia; Menur Mental Hospital, Surabaya, Indonesia, Indonesia
Vol. 10 No. 1 (2021): May
Literature Review
May 31, 2021

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Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder, persistent, chronic, easy to relapse. Schizophrenics at risk of becoming victims of pasung. Confinement is any form of limitation of movement of people with mental illness by families and/or communities. The government has launched the program to end pasung, but the incidence of pasung in the community is still quite high. Liberation of community-based pasung includes prevention of pasung, handling of pasung and rehabilitation of post-pasung. The method of community-based pasung release at the rehabilitation stage that is widely used is Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) and has been proven to reduce recurrence and hospitalization rates in schizophrenics so as to reduce the incidence of pasung and prevent re-pasung.