Pengaruh Terapi Aktivitas Kelompok Terhadap Penurunan Depresi Lansia di Panti Usia Lanjut Ais’yah Surakarta

Herawati, Vitri Dyah and Widiyono, Widiyono and Indriyati, Indriyati Pengaruh Terapi Aktivitas Kelompok Terhadap Penurunan Depresi Lansia di Panti Usia Lanjut Ais’yah Surakarta. Malahayati Nursing Journal. ISSN 2655-4712 (Submitted)

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Abstract

Introduction: Depression in elderly is caused by many factors. The impact of depression greatly decreases the quality of life of the elderly. Nursing interventions are needed to deal with depression problems in the elderly. Group activity therpy, perceptions stimulation of low self-esteem and cognitive-behavioral therapy is recommended for depression elderly with low self-esteem. Purpose: This study aims to identify depression reduction to the elderly with low self-esteem by perceptual stimulation, group activity therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Method: The research design is a quasi experiment with pre-post test without control group, with 56 sample (28 people in the intervention group and 28 people in the control group). The data is collected by Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and analyzed using the T-Test. . Results: The results showed that there was a significant decrease in depression in the elderly with low self-esteem in the two groups with a decrease of 67.4% in the intervention group and 31.9% in the control group (p value <0.05), and there was a significant relationship between the characteristics of the elderly (gender, education, marital status, occupation and comorbid physical illness) with depression in the elderly with low self-esteem (p value <0.05). Conclusion: Group activity therapy, perceptual stimulation and cognitive behavioral therapy is recommended to decrease depression in elderly with low self-esteem. Keywords: Group Activity Therapy, Depression, the elderly

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