The Phenomenological Study of Patients’ Family Experience in Early Detecting of Sign and Stroke Sympthom Pre-Hospital in Regional Public Hospital of Pariaman

Abstract

WHO (2016) states that stroke is one of the causes of 6.7 billion deaths per year around the world. The slow identification of stroke symptoms causes handling delays and extends the damage of neurology. The purpose of this research is to identify the experience of the patient's family in early detecting the sign and symptoms of pre-hospital stroke. The design of the research is qualitative research with the phenomenology mode Colaizzi approach. The data has been collected through in-depth interviews and field notes. The participants consist of seven families of patients with non-hemorrhagic stroke. The results of the research have found 3 themes, as follows: (1) Observing the physical changes of the patient, (2) giving traditional medicine (3) Bringing patients to a health officers. The result of the research is expected the hospital can do cooperation with medical service reconciliation to educate early detection of stroke pre-hospital especially to the patient who is at risk of stroke factor.