The family's ability to treat impaired patients indirectly will be a burden to the family, causing a recurrence in paranoid schizophrenic patients. This study is aimed to relate family burden in treating patients with schizophrenia paranoid frequency of recurrence in Amino Gondohutomo psychiatric hospital of Semarang. This research is a descriptive analysis with cross sectional approach. with 84 samples by purposive sampling. The statistical test used Chi-Square. The result shows that there is no relationship between family burden and patient recurrence with paranoid schizophrenia (p-value = 0.001 <0.05). the correlation coefficient of 0.352 indicates that the higher the family burden the higher the recurrence arises. The study recommends that there should be an effort to reduce the burden of the family in caring for mental patients to prevent recurrence.
Keywords : Family Burden, Recurrence, Paranoid schizophreni
