EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY SUPPORT AND ANXIETY LEVELS IN END OF LIFE PALIATIVE CARE PATIENTS

Abstract

Palliative care is a specialized approach undertaken to improve the quality of life of patients and families facing challenges related to life-threatening illnesses, through the prevention and reduction of suffering, through early identification, good assessment or examination, and physical, psychosocial and spiritual pain and stress therapy.The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between family support and the level of anxiety in palliative patients in facing end of life in ward 8 geriatric Mayapada Hospital South Jakarta. The research method used was a quantitative descriptive design with a pearson correlation approach. The number of samples in this study is 30 nurses taken through accidental sampling. The results were tested using the Pearson correlation  test with a significance level of 0.05. The results showed that the relationship between family support and anxiety levels, using the person correlation  test obtained a P value of 0.046. The result of the P value is 0.046 < 0.05, then H0 is rejected and Ha is accepted, meaning that there is a relationship between family support and the level of anxiety in palliative patients in facing the end of life in ward 8 geriatric Mayapada Hospital South Jakarta