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Pengaruh Ruwatan Murwokolo terhadap Kesehatan (Influence of Murwokolo Ruwatan on Health)

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Background: ln a social life, every culture has an effort to reach tranquility of life, including health, spared from disease and the other disabilities/interference. One way to do this is by doing Ruwatan Murwokolo or Ruwatan, which comes from Javanese philosophy This means to set people free from life problems especially to those who have many complicated problems and not in a tranquility/peaceful mind. Those people are called as "sukerto" in Javanese. Someone who got ruwatan treatment is supposed to be the one who getstranquility and salvation from God. Until now, ruwatan remain its existence towards people of Java (Javanese).
Methods: This research was conducted in Surabaya by using quasi¬experimental method. Intervention was done towards a group of ruwatan participants. 6 months was taken to conduct the research. The research targets were ruwatan participants i.e. the communities who feel like "sukerio",
Results: The findings showed that respondents were mostly Islamic (96.7%), Javanese (98.3%), not married (86.7%), educationallevel from non-school/educated up to universities. Three main reasons why people take part in ruwatan are: to get improved on sustenance (60%), away from misfortune/danger (58%), away from diseases (53%). Besides, parentsare the ones who motivate the participant to do ruwatan 62%.
Conclusion: Ruwatan makes people getting better in solving the problems both mentally and socially Meanwhile, it doesn't work well in healing physically

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Buletin Penelitian Sistem Kesehatan, 15 (3) 2012:

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Surabaya : Pusat Humaniora, Kebijakan Kesehatan dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat., 2012

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7p.

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1410-2935

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MENTAL HEALTH

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