Improvement of Intellectual, Emotional, Spiritual, and Adversity Intelligence After Psychoeducation Modification Among Lepers

摘要

The anxiety due to leprosy stigma makes the patient not ready to accept the disease so that it can cause psychological disorders, namely distress. Psychological disorders can affect the intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and adversity intelligence of lepers. Healing process must pay attention to physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects. One of the efforts to improve the psychosocial impact is psychoeducation. This study aims to prove differences in intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and adversity intelligence before and after psychoeducation modification intervention among lepers. This study used a Quasi Experiment approach with one group pretest-posttest design. The samples consisted of 12 leper respondents. Data were analyzed statistically using the dependent T test. Based on the results of paired T test, intellectual intelligence score obtained p value=0.004, emotional intelligence score obtained p value=0.001, and spiritual intelligence score obtained p value=0.000, meaning that there were differences in intellectual intelligence, emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence before and after psychoeducation modification intervention among lepers. Meanwhile, the adversity intelligence score obtained p value=0.103, meaning that there was no difference in adversity intelligence before and after the psychoeducation modification intervention among lepers.