PENGARUH PIJAT TANGAN DAN AROMATERAPI LAVENDER TERHADAP TINGKAT KECEMASAN MAHASISWA SEBELUM UJIAN LAB KLINIK KEPERAWATAN
Abstract: Nursing skill lab is
media practice to show hospital image for nursing students. Because of that,
anxiety in nursing students can occur before facing nursing skill lab tests.
The hands massage and lavender aromatherapy can provides relaxation and
minimizes sympathetic nervous activity in the autonomic nervous system.
Adrenaline and cortisol will decrease stress of students. This study aimed to
determine the effect of hands massage and lavender aromateraphy for anxiety
level on nursing students in Nursing Department, Medical Faculty of Udayana
University Class of 2013 before facing nursing skill lab tests. This is Quasy-experimental
design with pre-test and post-test with control group design. Sample consist of
30 nursing students were selected with simple random sampling technique,
divided become two groups, which are the control group and the treatment group.
The treatment group was given the hands massage and lavender aromatherapy for
20 minutes. Both of groups was measured by using a questioners of anxiety
level, this instrument is Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS) (0-40) for
examine pre-test and post-test anxiety level. Research results based on
analysis by the Man Whitney U Test, this difference is statistically
significant, with p-value=0,031, which means that there is effects of hands
massage and lavender aromatherapy for anxiety level on nursing students on Nursing
Department, Medical Faculty of Udayana University Class of 2013.
Penulis: Rawiti NMR
Kode Jurnal: jpkeperawatandd140168
