PENGARUH TEKNIK RELAKSASI BENSON TERHADAP TINGKAT DEPRESI LANJUT USIA AWAL (EARLY OLD AGE) UMUR 60-70 TAHUN DI UPT PELAYANAN SOSIAL LANJUT USIA JEMBER

Abstract

Depression is an emotional condition usually characterized by extreme sadness, feelings of unmeaningfulness and guilt, withdrawing from others, inability to sleep, loss of appetite, sexual desire, and interest as well as pleasure in the activities usually done. Treatment that can be given to the elderly who experiences a depression is to provide Benson relaxation therapy. This research was intended to analyze the effect of Benson relaxation technique on the level of depression of early old age of 60-70 at Technical Implementing Unit (UPT) of Social Service for Elderly Jember. The type of this research was a quasi experiment research with non randomized control group design pretest postest design. Sampling technique in this research was purposive sampling with the total samples of 42 respondents, divided into 2 groups: experiment group and control group. The results of this research showed data that level of depression in the control group mostly included in the category of fair depression with as many as 14 elderly (66.7%), after the administration of Benson's relaxation in the category of hard depression as many as 13 elderly (61.9%), while in the treatment group before the administration of Benson relaxation mostly included in the category of hard depression with as many as 13 elderly (61.9%), after being given Benson's relaxation, they came into the category of light depression which was about 9 elderly (42.9%). The analysis used was by Mann Whitney U test Test. The results showed p value of 0.001 (0.001 <0.05), so Ho was rejected. Thus, there was an effect of giving Benson's relaxation on level of depression in elderly at UPT (Technical Implementing Unit) of Social Service of Elderly Jember. The study suggested nurses use Benson relaxation to reduce depression in the elderly.