Patient with breast cancer is experienced a psychological pressure with cancer diagnosis. This condition leads to anxiety and hopeless feeling toward life. One of the therapies which found effective to minimize anxiety is progressive muscle relaxation. The objective of the reasearch was to find the influence of progressive muscle relaxation therapy as the nursing intervention in reducing the anxiety level of the patient with breast cancer. The research applied quasi experiment method with pre-test and post-test control group design. The samples involved are 26 patients with breast cancer, which consist of 13 patients with intervention and 13 patient without intervention. The research instrument used to assess the anxiety level was HRS-A (Hamilton Rating Scale-Anxiety) questionnaire. The research conducted at RSUP Haji Adam Malik Medan from May to June,2016. Progressive muscle relaxation theraphy was carried out in 3 days with the frequency of 6 times exercise. The result of the research showed that t-value was -4.275 and p-value=0.000 or p-value < 0.05 (0,000) which indicated that there was the influence of progressive muscle relaxation therapy on the decrease in the level of anxiety of breast cancer patients. Therefore, nurse can use progressive muscle relaxation as non-pharmacological in coping with breast cancer patients. Patient with breast cancer mostly experienced psychological pressure . This condition leads to anxiety and hopeless feeling toward life. One of the therapies which regarded effective to minimize anxiety is progressive muscle relaxation. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of progressive muscle relaxation therapy as intervention in reducing the anxiety level of the patient with breast cancer. This study employed quasi experiment method with a pre-test and post-test control group design. The sample was composed of 26 breast cancer patients; 13 patients with intervention and 13 patients without intervention. The research instrument used to assess the anxiety level was HRS-A (Hamilton Rating Scale-Anxiety) questionnaire. The study was conducted in Haji Adam Malik Hospital Medan from May to June, 2016. Progressive muscle relaxation theraphy was carried out for 3 days, with a frequency of 6 exercises The results showed that t-value was -4.275 and p-value=0.000 indicating that there was an effect of progressive muscle relaxation therapy in reducing the level of anxiety of breast cancer patients. Therefore, nurse can use progressive muscle relaxation as non-pharmacological in coping with breast cancer patients.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a highly infectious flu outbreakwhich spread rapidly around the world. COVID-19 outbreak caused panicand is predicted to increase the prevalence of mental illnesses suchas depression and anxiety disorder . Along with increased anxiety anddecreased mood, increased fear has been detected.Purpose: To analyze the fear of COVID-19 related factors and measure thelevel of fear among women in Indonesia.Methods: This is a cross-sectional study with 242 women who wasimplemented using the fear of COVID-19 instrument. A convenience samplewas utilized and was recruited via an online WhatsApp through personaltext to the potential respondents. The respondents stated their agreement toparticipate on the Google form before proceeding to fll in the data and answerthe instrument items. The analysis was carried out to obtain the frequencydistribution, mean and P-value. The mean score of each instrument item andthe overall items were calculated and compared based on demographic datausing t-test for two variables and analysis of variance (ANOVA) for three ormore variables. Furthermore, the scores obtained were categorized into lowand high fear levels based on the overall mean, where scores from 0-17were categorized as low-level fear and 18-35 as high-level fear.Results: The results showed that 90.9% of the respondents were withinthe age range of 15–25 years, with the majority being students. Based onthe results of statistical tests, it was discovered that question 3 (Q3) andquestion 4 (Q4) were the two items that affected the level of women’s fearto COVID-19. Furthermore, the results of statistical tests using ANOVAshowed that occupation (P-Value of 0.01) and age (P-Value of 0.004) has asignifcant effect on the fear of COVID-19. In addition, based on the overallscore calculation showed that 72.3% samples have high-level fear and 27.7%has low-level fear. Based on the results of this study, it was discovered thatwomen’s age and occupation influence the level of fear to COVID-19.Conclusion: This study highlighted the signifcance of pandemic relatedfear and can inform the development of future women’s health studies.
Introduction. Studies showed that the caregiving process has an impact on physical and psychological health, such as stress and fatigue. This research aims to analyze the correlation between fatigue and stress in female caregivers caring for the hospitalized elderly in Medan, Indonesia. Method. This is a correlational study with a cross-sectional approach. Data collection was conducted from March to October 2020 and 42 caregivers participated. The data analysis was performed to analyze for frequency distribution and the Pearson correlation test was used to measure the strength of the correlation between variables. Results. It was reported that 47.5% of female caregivers were in the average age range of 47 years, and provided care almost 24 hours per day. The elderly had been sick for less than a year on average and showed some degree of partial dependence. Based on the results of the Pearson correlation test, the value of Sig. 0.000 < 0.05 was obtained. Furthermore, the direction of the positive relationship can be seen from the sign of the coefficient (Pearson's correlation of 0.759), which means that the higher the fatigue, the higher the stress level.Conclusion. These results are expected to be the basic data for future research and should be considered hospitals regarding care for the elderly. This can reduce the impact of the stress on the caregivers’ which can affect the quality of care provided.
Background. The exploration of coffee as an aromatherapy in the health service has not been widely carried out. In many cases, aromatherapy has been shown to reduce stress and fatigue. Purpose. To analyzes the effect of coffee aromatherapy on the fatigue and stress levels of female caregivers caring for the elderly at the University of Sumatera Utara Hospital (USU Hospital), in Medan. Methods. This is a quasi-experiment one group pretest posttest design. The research involved 16 caregivers were given a treatment of coffee oil by inhalation for 15 minutes for three consecutive days, without coffee oil inhalation and 10% of coffee oil concentration on the first day, 20% on the second day, and 30% on the third day. Each sample received a pretest and posttest in the form of stress and fatigue instruments. The data analysis performed was univariate in order to describe the properties of each variable examined and analyze the mean score. Similarly, bivariate analysis with the Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistical test was used to determine the effect of coffee aromatherapy on reducing the fatigue and stress level. Results. The result showed that most caregivers were elderly children with an average age of 38 years, 81.3% assisted in caring for the elderly, and actively working outside the home. Based on the ANOVA test, the data showed that the administration of coffee aromatherapy for three consecutive days has no effect on female caregivers’ fatigue and stress level. However, the mean score showed a decrease in fatique and stress level before and after coffee oil inhalation in three days. Conclusion. It is necessary to provide coffee oil aromatherapy intervention with a longer duration to have an effect on reducing caregiver fatique and stress in the future, so the results are expected to form the basic data for the design of nursing interventions based on complementary therapies in order to reduce the fatigue and stress of caregivers while providing care to the hospitalized elderly.
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