The Effect of Progressive Relaxation Therapy on Elderly With Insomnia

Abstract

Along with many physiologic changes seen with aging, significant changes also happen in sleep and circadian rhythm across the lifes. Insomnia is a form of sleep disorder that is often experienced by the elderly. Insomnia is difficulty initiating or maintaining sleep. Treatment for insomnia usually begins with the elimination of habits (moving beds, using the bed only to sleep and others) if it doesn't work, it can be treated with hypnotic drugs. In fact, the elderly with all the functional decline of their bodies will make the work of their organs more difficult when they often consume these drugs. Therefore a therapy that is progressive relaxation therapy is expected to overcome these problems in the elderly. Progressive relaxation provides a way to identify specific muscles to differentiate between feelings of tension and deep relaxation. The purpose is to analyzing the effect of progressive muscle relaxation to elderly with insomnia in Pucangan Village, Kartasura. This study uses a pre-experimental approach with a one-group pre-test and post-test design. Techniques Sampling was done by purposive sampling technique as many as 30 elderly people who suffer from insomnia. The statistical test used was the paired samples t test with a p value of < 0.05. The results using the paired t test show the mean value of the pretest was 13.10 with a standard deviation of 5.08 and the post-test value was 11.07 with a standard deviation of 5.09, with the result p value = 0.001. The conclusion in this study shows that progressive relaxation therapy has a significant effect on the elderly who experience insomnia.
 Keywords: Elderly; Insomnia; Progressive Relaxation

Role of Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to Control Insomnia Among Elderly

“…Journal Homepage: https://jurnal.agdosi.com/index.php/IJHS/index Volume 2 | Number 1 | March 2024 |this method demonstrated that PMR is beneficial in lowering the incidence of insomnia in elderly(Sutrisno, Herawati and Aryani, 2022),(Arianti and Novera, 2019),(Fari, Pranata and Sukistini, 2021). In the same vein, with regard to three additional articles that investigated cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), two journals utilized systematic methods and literature reviews, as well as application-based CBT(Lee et al, 2024) dan(Mijnster et al, 2022), Additionally, one journal utilized the literature review method(McLaren et al, 2023) and one journal utilized the literature review method (McLaren et al, 2023) without application.…”

“…CBT-I, especially the parts of therapy that concentrate on boosting homeostatic sleep drive, has been demonstrated to alleviate insomnia in the aged and should be utilized to counteract the consequences of aging on sleep.Insomnia following treatment with progressive relaxation. The findings of the research(Sutrisno, Herawati and Aryani, 2022) indicated that patients who received progressive relaxation therapy experienced a reduction in the amount of sleeplessness they experienced. Prior to the implementation of the progressive relaxation therapy, there were seventeen (76.6%) respondents.…”

Effect Of Progressive Muscle Relaxation On Insomnia Among The Elderly: A Literature Review

“…Six studies were from Indonesia (Lufianti et al, 2023) (Royani & Siska, 2023 (Satria et al, 2023) (Sutrisno et al, 2022) (Nazari et al, 2022) (Muhaningsyah et al, 2021. Turkey 1 research study (Gökşin & Aşiret, 2021), China 1 research study (Li et al, 2020), Egyptian 1 Research (Elsalam & Kholy, 2020).…”