EFFECTS OF PROGRESSIVE MUSCLE RELAXATION INTERVENTION WITH MUSIC AND AROMATHERAPY ON DECREASING STRESS LEVEL AMONG TEACHERS
| Autor: | Claudia Fariday Dewi, Ani Margawati, Muhammad Muin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
030504 nursing business.industry medicine.medical_treatment education Intervention group Stress level 03 medical and health sciences School teachers 0302 clinical medicine Intervention (counseling) Physical therapy General Earth and Planetary Sciences Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Relaxation Therapy 0305 other medical science business Depressive symptoms Progressive muscle relaxation Aromatherapy |
| Zdroj: | Nurse Media Journal of Nursing. 8:71 |
| ISSN: | 2406-8799 2087-7811 |
| Popis: | Introduction: Stress among teachers has a significant relationship with the psychosomatic and depressive symptoms. Community nurses need to make efforts in preventing the adverse effects of stress on teachers. Progressive muscle relaxation with music and aromatherapy is an alternative intervention which can be practiced to reduce the level of stress among teachers. This study aimed to investigate the effects of progressive muscle relaxation which was combined with music and aromatherapy on decreasing the level of stress in teachers.Methods:This study employed a pre-post test quasi-experimental design with a control group. The samples were 46 teachers recruited by purposive sampling and were assigned to the intervention group (n=23) and the control group (n=23). The intervention of progressive muscle relaxation with music and aromatherapy was given to the intervention group for four sessions in four days; each session lasted for 20 minutes. The data were analyzed using the t-test to know the effects of the intervention on decreasing the stress level.Results:The results showed that the average level of stress of the teachers in the intervention group decreased from 50.65 ± 3.761 to 32.78 ± 8.426 after the intervention. Meanwhile, in the control group, the average stress level slightly decreased from 49.87 ± 3.348 to 49.17 ± 4.868. The result of the t-test obtained a p-value of 0.000 ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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