Pengaruh Relaksasi Otot dalam Menurunkan Skor Kecemasan T-Tmas Mahasiswa Menjelang Ujian Akhir Program di Akademi Keperawatan Notokusumo Yogyakarta
Abstrak: Anxiety is a
disorders that has symptoms of heart, dizzy, wet palm and foot or emotional
disorders such as discomfort feeling, difficult to concentrate, worried,
exhaustness, insomnia, less appetite. This condition often occurred in students
of Nursing Academy (Akper) of Notokusumo Yogyakarta when they are facing final
examination. This is obtained from a preliminary research that was conducted by
giving question on the condition experienced by the students of Akper
Notokusumo Yogyakarta regarding their worryness in facing the examination with
subject of 50 students that was held on the 5th – 8th of October 2007.
Objective: This research was aimed to find out the influence of muscle
relaxation in decreasing the TMAS anxiety score of students in facing their
final examination.
Method: This was a quasi experimental design with randomized control
group pre test and post test design that was research subjects who were
classified into two groups that were treatment group that was located in Akper
Notokusumo with 100 students and control group that was located in Akper Karya
Bhakti Husada Bantul with subjects of 50 students. Both of the groups were
given pre test before given treatment, and yet, one group was given post test
after treatment while the other group was given post test without treatment.
The intsrument being used was Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS). The analysis
being used to examine the difference of treatment and control group was
conducted with independet sample t test with significance level of p = 0.05.
Result: The result of the research showed that there was a decreasing on
anxiety from pre test to post test. In control group, there was no decreasing
of anxiety from pre test to post test even there was an improvement during post
test.
Conclusion: Relaxation had influence in decreasing anxiety of student of
Nursing Academy of Notokusumo Yogyakarta as treatment group and the result was
lower during post test compared to pre test.
Penulis: Suyamto Yayi Suryo
Prabandari, Carla Raymondalexas Marchira
Kode Jurnal: jpkedokterandd090162
