Empowering Families That Have Mental Disorders Members of Life at UPTD Sukorejo City Blitar
Mental illness in Indonesia has a prevalence of 6% for ages 15 and over, or about 14 millionpeople. In order to prevent the continued development of health problems related to mental disorders,family members need to be empowered and increased the ability which includes 5 basic tasks in the fieldof family health. The purpose of this research was to describe the empowerment of families who had amental disorder member in UPTD Health Sukorejo. The research method used descriptive design. Thepopulation in this study was families who had mental disorder member in the District Sukorejo as manyas 33 families, the sample was 30 families. The sampling technique used purposive sampling and theinstrument used FES (Family Empowerment Scale) from Koren, et. all. Family empowerment said to beoptimal if the average of 56.66. The results showed an average of 36.25 ± 6.110 family empowermentmeans empowerment of the family had not been optimal. This was possible because most of the care forpeople with mental disorders was maternal age> 50 years, elementary education and did not work andcare for people with mental disorders for> 10 years. The study was expected health workers couldprovide health services in cooperation with various related parties, socializing and management ofmental disorders in the community could be optimized.