Siti Nurul Khotimah
The number of people with mental disorders in the West Java region is still in the highest rank nationally. Based on data from the WHO World Health Agency, people with mental disorders are found in urban areas. The city of Bandung is one of the big cities in the West Java region. The Bandung City Health Office stated that based on regional health research data in 2007, showed the number of residents who had mental disorders in Bandung almost the same as the population of Cimahi City which was around 19.2% or 600 thousand people. People with psychiatric disorders in the city of Bandung are due to the many problems including socioocial problems that occur such as economic factors. One problem in the diagnosis of psychiatric disorders is justification of the level of psychiatric disorders that have been using EEG (Electroencephalogram). EEG only measures the litric signal in the brain, does not provide an overall brain image. Therefore, an additional diagnosis is needed that provides an overview of the abnormality or dysfunction of the brain through a three-dimensional image using the ECVT Brain Scanner. The results of this service activity in the form of functional data scanning data from several mental disorders in West Java Province RSJ. The number of patients discanned with the ECVT Brain Scanner is 13 patients with several categories of mental disorders, including: Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, users of psychoactive substances and epilepsy.
Application of appropriate technology, the implementation of social care activities in the form of education / counseling / mentoring
During this time the diagnosis of mental disorders in the West Java Provincial RSJ was only based on the diagnosis of psychiatrists or clinical psychologists. After observation or observation, psychiatrists and clinical psychologists will build the initial diagnosis. The initial diagnosis should be continued with further and in-depth examination, for example using EEG (Electroencephalography) to merek the patient's brain wave. But in reality it was not done because the EEG tool at RSJ Jawa Province was damaged, could not be used.