Latar Belakang: Strok merupakan kondisi medis akibat terganggunya aliran darah ke otak yang menyebabkan kematian sel sehingga sering mengakibatkan kelumpuhan. Kelumpuhan pada usia produktif dapat menyebabkan kepercayaan diri pasien menurun. Hal ini dapat mempengaruhi kualitas hidup pasien di beberapa domain kehidupan, seperti fungsi fisik dan mental, kemampuan untuk melakukan aktivitas/peran sehari-hari.Tujuan: Menggali pengalaman keluarga dalam meningkatkan kualitas hidup pasien pasca strok.Metode: Penelitian yang digunakan berbasis kualitatif melalui pendekatan fenomenologi, dengan partisipan sebanyak 6 orang. Hasil penelitian dianalisis menggunakan metode Colaizzi.Hasil: Keluarga sulit membedakan kondisi pasien strok berulang serta tanda dan gejala kerusakan, sedangkan respons emosional ketika terjadi strok berulang adalah menangis, cemas, takut kehilangan anggota keluarganya dan respons simpatik oleh keluarga. Massage ringan dan kompres hangat adalah tindakan yang sering dilakukan apabila ada permasalahan dengan gangguan sendi.Kesimpulan: Penelitian ini menghasilkan 4 tema, yaitu mengenal gejala awal terserang strok berulang, bagaimana respons psikososial keluarga menghadapi strok berulang, penyebab keterlambatan dibawa ke rumah sakit, dan pertolongan pertama sebelum pasien dibawa ke rumah sakit.

Quality nursing services require nurses to work in a professional and standardized manner, where the service focuses on the patient and has to be comprehensive. The best nursing services can be realized by caring behavior which is fundamental to the nursing profession. The design of this research is "Quasi-experimental with One Group pretest-posttest design". The study was conducted on 50 nurses in four wards selected by proportional random sampling. Data were analyzed with proportions and Paired T-Test. The results showed that there was significant differences caring domain such as cognitive abilities (p = 0.000), affective abilities (p = 0.000), psychomotor abilities (p = 0.000), and also work culture (p = 0.000) after being given caring training. It means that caring training can improve caring behavior and work culture. It is expected that the hospital will conduct caring training for all nurses for a minimum of 1 day with the training method carried out by lectures, questions and answers, role play/demonstrations, discussions and using the caring module as nurse guidance for caring behavior.

HIV/AIDS patients have complex problems, both physical, psychological, social, and spiritual. The most common psychological problem is thanatophobia. Psychological problems that are not resolved will reduce the patient's immune system that it can accelerate the emergence of opportunistic infections. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of Cognitive Behavior Therapy on death anxiety. The design of this research is Mixed Method. The research was conducted at the Taratak Jiwa Hati Foundation, Padang City with a sample of 15 people who were taken by purposive sampling technique. Data collection techniques with deep interviews and the implementation of CBT in groups of five sessions for five weeks. Univariate data analysis is a frequency distribution. The bivariate analysis uses paired sample t-test. The results obtained are the average level of death anxiety of HIV patients before administering CBT is 9.6 and after giving CBT is 6.4 and n value. The mean difference between before and after CBT was 3.2 with a standard deviation of 3.55. The results of the statistical test showed that there was a significant difference between the level of death anxiety in HIV patients before and after CBT (p = 0.0 04). It is hoped that nurses will provide counseling to HIV AIDS patients to take CBT when there is a problem. It is suggested to the next researcher to conduct other research on how to overcome the mental problems of HIV patients