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

Herawati, Vitri Dyah and Indriyati, Indriyati and Widiyono, Widiyono (2021) Pengaruh Terapi Aktivitas Kelompok Terhadap Penurunan Gejala Depresi Lansia di Panti Usia Lanjut Ais’yah Surakarta. Holistik Jurnal Kesehatan, 15 (3). pp. 405-412. ISSN 2620-7478

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Abstract

Background: Depression in the elderly caused many factors. The impact of depression decreases the quality of life of the elderly. Nursing interventions need to deal with depression problems in the elderly. Group activity therapy, perceptions stimulation of low self-esteem, and cognitive-behavioral therapy recommend for depression elderly with low self-esteem. Purpose: Knowing the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy for depression in elderly people living in institutions. Method: The research design is a quasi-experiment with a pre-post test with a control group, with 30 participants divided by 2 groups (each group comprises 15 participants). The instrument using Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and analyzed using the Independent T-Test Results: Finding 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: Cognitive-behavioral group therapy for depression is recommended to decrease depression in the elderly with low self-esteem.

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