Memorizing Al Quran Improves Quality of Life Stroke Patients with Motoric Aphasia Disorders

Abstract

Background and purpose. Empowering stroke patients with motor aphasia through memorizing the Al Quran to improve quality of life. Stroke causes neurological disorders that cause changes in quality of life. Quality of life is healthy physically, mentally, socially, environmentally and healthily, regardless of illness and can maintain health status. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of memorizing the Al Quran and family support on stroke patients with motor aphasia disorder on functional communication skills, level of independence and quality of life. Materials and methods. The study was conducted at Ja’far Medika General Hospital Karanganyar, Central Java, Indonesia. The number of subjects was 102 stroke patients with motor aphasia, as evidenced by the results of head CT scan. Type of quantitative research, using experimental design, simple randomized the pretest-posttest control group design. Results. The effect of memorizing the Al Quran, family support, functional communication skills and the level of independence of the combined quality of life in stroke patients with motor aphasia impairment got the value of r square = 0.982 with p = 0.000 (p <0.001) which means that memorizing the Al Quran, support family, functional communication skills and level of independence affect the quality of life combined in stroke patients with motoric aphasia with very strong levels. Or it can be said that 98.2% of the quality of life is influenced by memorizing the Al Quran, family support, functional communication skills and level of independence. Partially it is known that the most influential effect on the quality of life in stroke patients with motor aphasia is memorizing Al Quran (r = 0.735; p = 0.000) compared to family support (r = 0.321; p = 0.000), while functional communication skills (r = 0.017; p = 0.618) and independence (r = 0.035; p = 0.305) had no significant effect on quality of life. Conclusion. That the direct influence of the variable memorizing the Al Quran and family support for the quality of life is better, without having to go through functional communication skills and the level of independence as mediation.