01937nas a2200193 4500000000100000008004100001653001200042653001600054653002000070653002100090653001400111100001400125700001300139245006600152856007300218300001200291490000600303520143400309 2018 d10aleprosy10aSelf-esteem10aself-acceptance10aLeprosy patients10aIndonesia1 aSari DAKW1 aErawati 00aSelf acceptance as self esteem predictor in leprosy patients. uhttp://proceeding.tenjic.org/jic2/index.php/jic2/article/view/119/34 a198-2050 v23 a
Background: Leprosy is a disease that affects the physic and psychology that can cause a significant decrease in self esteem in leprosy patients. Some factors that can affect self esteem in leprosy patients one of them is self-acceptance of leprosy patients themselves. This study aims to identify the relationship of self-acceptance to self esteem leprosy patients in Leprosy Hospital Kediri.
Methods: The research design was observational analytic. The samples in the research were 114 respondents who met inclusion criteria using purposive sampling technique. The independent variable was self-acceptance while the dependent variable was self-esteem of patients with leprosy. The data were analyzed using Spearman's Rho statistic test.
Results: The results showed that most leprosy patients had moderate self-acceptance (50.9%) and moderate self esteem (59.6%). The results of Spearman's Rho statistic test showed that independent variable self acceptance have ρ-value = 0.000 indicating that correlation between self acceptance and self esteem was meaningful.
Conclusion: Kediri Leprosy Hospital was expected to increase further efforts to change the negative stigma in community through providing socialization routinely and counseling to patients with leprosy who had psychological problems such as low self-esteem.