Intervention on Marital Satisfaction for Wives of People with Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is characterized by profound disruption in cognition, emotions and behavior. Family members as the primary caregiver for caring People with Schizophrenia (PWS). For PWS who have been married, their couple has significant role. The couple of PWS experiences stress that results in burden of caregiving. Wives of PWS have a higher burden than husbands of PWS. Burdened with an overabundance of caregiving influences the marital dissatisfaction. This study aimed to analyze whether the intervention is able to reduce the caregiving burden thereby increasing marital satisfaction for wives of PWS. The research method used was single-case research experimental method with A-B-A design. The respondents was 3 (three) wives of PWS. All respondents experienced the burden decreasing after participating the intervention. As their burden decreased, they experienced an increase in marital satisfaction. The results indicated that the intervention was able to reduce caregiving burden so that it improved marital satisfaction