Alfred L.
Mahasiswa Program Doktor UNPAR Bandung
alfred_lim62@yahoo.com
Abstract
This research is experimental, which was done by verifying the worrying degree of patients who received spiritual counselling treatment and those who were not. By descriptive analysis it was found that the main of the worrying degree of patients who received spiritual counselling treatment is lower than those who did not receive. From the number of patients experienced worrying there was also a difference between both. The worrying source of the patients is varied, depends on the patients’ characteristics such as the type of suffering disease, the period of the disease, the economic level, the type of occupation. The most dominant worrying sources are to the type of suffering disease, to make their job disturbed, to burden the family, and to the cost of house.
Keywords: Spiritual counselling, worrying, patients