Open Access Maced J Med Sci. 2022 Jan 02; 9(T5):137-141. 137 Scientifc Foundation SPIROSKI, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences. 2022 Jan 02; 9(T5):137-141. https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2022.7834 eISSN: 1857-9655 Category: T5 - “Readvancing Nursing Practice, Education and Research in the Post Covid” Section: Pediatrics Family Empowerment Psychoeducation on Family Support Caring of Children Diarrhea Atik Badi’ah 1 *, Ni Ketut Mendri 1 , Bondan Palestin 1 , Amin Subargus 2 , Titih Huriah 3 , Furaida Khasanah 1 , Mohammad Najib 4 , Arita Murwani 5 , Muhammad Abdul Aziz 1 1 PUI Novakesmas, School of Health Polytechnics, Ministry of Health, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; 2 Ofce of Manpower and Transmigration, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; 3 Department of Nursing, Universitas Muhammadiyah, Yogyakarta, Indonesia; 4 Study Program in Nursing, School of Health Polytechnics, Ministry of Health, Surabaya, Indonesia; 5 Study Program in Nursing Institute, Health Science Surya Global, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Abstract BACKGROUND: Families with family members experiencing illness are traumatic experiences. Family empowerment through psychoeducation is one of the interventions to caring for families with children under 5 who experience diarrhea. This intervention can provide educational information to families regarding problems caring for children under 5 with diarrhea, management of diarrhea under 5 years of age, and family support in caring for children under 5 with diarrhea. The preliminary study showed that nurses and health workers did not provide psychoeducation to families. AIM: This study aims to know the efect of the family empowerment psychoeducation on family support in caring for children diarrhea at the primary health center. METHODOLOGY: This study is a quasi-experiment research with pre- and post-test control group design. The sampling technique used purposive sampling. The data were analyzed using pair t-test, Wilcoxon independent t-test, and Mann–Whitney with a signifcant level of p < 0.05. RESULTS: Before being given family empowerment through psychoeducation, family support was mainly in the good category as many as 34 respondents (73.9%), and after the intervention, the good category increased to 95.7%. In the intervention group, there is diferent family support in caring for children under 5 with diarrhea pre-test and post- test after being given family empowerment through psychoeducation with p (sig) < 0.05. There are no diferences in family support between the intervention and control groups after family empowerment psychoeducation. CONCLUSION: There is an efect of the family empowerment psychoeducation on family support in caring for childhood diarrhea in primary health centers in the intervention group. Edited by: https://publons.com/researcher/391987/ mirko-spiroski/ Citation: Badi’ah A, Mendri NK, Palestin B, Subargus A, Huriah T, Khasanah F, Najib M, Murwani A, Aziz MA. Family Empowerment Psychoeducation on Family Support Caring of Children Diarrhea. Open-Access Maced J Med Sci. 2022 Jan 02; 9(T5):137-141. https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2022.7834 Keywords: Family empowerment; Psychoeducation; Family support; Caring of children diarrhea *Correspondence: Atik Badi’ah, PUI Novakesmas, School of Health Polytechnics, Ministry of Health Yogyakarta, Indonesia. E-mail: atik.cahyo@yahoo.com Received: 06-Nov-2021 Revised: 24-Dec-2021 Accepted: 27-Dec-2021 Copyright: © 2022 Atik Badi’ah, Ni Ketut Mendri, Bondan Palestin, Amin Subargus, Titih Huriah, Furaida Khasanah, Mohammad Najib, Arita Murwani, Muhammad Abdul Aziz Funding: This research did not receive any fnancial support Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interest exists Open Access: This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0) Introduction Diarrhea has always been one of the Yogyakarta’s top 10 diseases. This evidence showed the high number of diarrhea patients seen at the district/city health center each year. However, knowing the original number of people sufering from diarrhea is difcult because many patients are not recorded because they do not visit health-care facilities. Yogyakarta has a high number of children under 5 who have diarrhea. Meanwhile, the number of reported diarrhea cases has fuctuated. According to the data from health centers in Yogyakarta’s Special Region, 33,033 children under 5 were diagnosed with diarrhea in 2016. In 2017, there were 28,318 cases, and in 2018/2019, it increased to 40,150 cases [1]. The family plays a critical role in determining appropriate actions to overcome family members’ health problems [2], [3]. Not all families deal with family members who are sufering from illness. Some families demonstrate an inability to assist clients in managing and mastering adaptive tasks related to health issues. This inability is due to several interconnected factors, including long-term illness that depletes the family’s supportive ability, a lack of information, a lack of understanding of the family, and incorrect information about health problems faced by the family [4]. Some interventions include providing emotional support, increasing family involvement, increasing family normalization, and empowerment. Family empowerment interventions emphasize a philosophical attitude toward the concept of working with families. Families with illness family members go through a traumatic experience, so the approach is to refne nursing interventions with family abilities and cognitive, afective and acting naturally, and the family’s strengths. Empowerment interventions carried out on families are by being good listeners, loving, non- judgmental, collaborators, motivating the emergence of family strength, family participation, and involvement in the process of change and healing disease [5].