GAMBARAN TINGKAT STRESS DAN KOPING PADA PENGGUNA NARKOBA DI BALAI REHABILITASI SOSIAL “MANDIRI” SEMARANG

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ABSTRACT GhilmaAgustiaRohaina The Overview of Drug Users’ Stress Levels and Coping in “Mandiri” Social Rehabilitation Center Semarang XV + 102 pages + 2 figures + 7 tables + 16 appendices Drug abuse is a global problem and the number of drug users keeps increasing. Drug abuse cases can be treated through rehabilitation. During the rehabilitation process, rehabilitants are required to undergo all the scheduled program and not allowed to have other activities outside the rehabilitation center. The condition has become the stressor for drug users under rehabilitation program. To deal with stress, drug users apply different coping strategies. The study has intended to describe the characteristics of drug users by age, education level, length of drug use, types of drugs used, the use of reason, and underwent a long rehabilitation,the stress levels and coping strategies experienced by drug users during rehabilitation. The study was based on quantitative method using descriptive cross sectional and total sampling that involve 35 respondents who were 15-24 year old in “Mandiri” Social Rehabilitation Center Semarang.The data of stress level was obtained using questionnaire based on Perceived Stress Scaleand the data of coping strategy was based on the questionnaire based on The Brief Cope. The result is most of the respondents experienced moderate stress (82.9%). The most common strategy of the respondents is religion (mean = 5.11).As a recommendation, “Mandiri” Social Rehabilitation Center should give counseling to drug users so that they will be able to share the problems that might be their cause of stress. Furthermore, the rehabilitation center should increase religious activities based on the facts that the drug users usually use religion as their coping strategy. Keywords: drug users, the level of stress, coping strategies