THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY SUPPORT AND SOCIAL INTERACTION AMONG THE ELDERLY AT PAYUNG SEKAKI PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER, PEKANBARU.

Abstract

Family support is a real form of interpersonal relationship between families, one of the goals of which is to protect someone from problems such as helping reduce stress or burdens. In its task, the family carries out an adaptation role which helps create and maintain a culture in harmony with physical, emotional, mental and social development, with the increasing number of elderly people also facing problems experienced by the elderly such as physical, psychological, social & economic changes. One of the social problems resulting from the aging process experienced by the elderly is difficulty connecting with people around them or difficulty having social interactions. This research aims to determine the relationship between family support and social interaction among the elderly at the Payung Sekaki Community Health Center, Pekanbaru City. This research is a quantitative research with a correlation design with a cross sectional approach. The sample for this research was 82 elderly people who came to the Payung Sekaki Community Health Center, Pekanbaru City on December 10-20 2024 and the sampling technique used was Accidental Sampling. This research instrument uses a family support questionnaire and a social interaction questionnaire. The analysis used was univariate analysis with respondent characteristics and bivariate analysis using the chi square test. The results of this research showed that more than half of family support was high, namely 55 people (67.1%), and more than half of social interaction was 56 people (68.3%), and the chi square statistical test obtained a p value = 0.001 < 0.05, which means that H0 was rejected, so it can be concluded that there is a relationship between family support and social interaction in the elderly at the Payung Sekaki Community Health Center, Pekanbaru City with an OR value of 5,000, meaning that elderly people who receive high family support have a high level of social interaction. 5,000 times better than elderly people who have low family support.