Abstract
Obstacles in writing a thesis can make students experience stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, frustration, loss of motivation, and delaying writing a thesis and some even decide not to finish their thesis. Coping mechanism is a way of dealing with stress and anxiety by deceiving oneself. Religious coping is one way to deal with stress with a religious approach. The aim of this research is to determine the effect of giving religious coping handbook therapy on stress and anxiety in final year students of the Bachelor of Nursing Study Program at Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto. This study is a pre-experimental study with a one group pretest-posttest design. Purposive sampling technique with a total of 23 respondents according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The research instrument used the DASS and IROPE questionnaire. Data analysis using Wilcoxon test. The results showed that the stress of students before being given therapy had an average score of 35.57 and after therapy had an average score of 6.61. Anxiety of students before being given therapy has an average score of 31.91 and after being given therapy has an average score of 4.17. There is an effect of giving religious coping handbook therapy to stress and anxiety in final year students of the Bachelor of Nursing Study Program at Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto (p value: 0.0001). There was a decrease in stress and anxiety scores after being given religious coping handbook therapy.
Highlights
INTRODUCTIONFinal year students are students who are in the process of working on their final project or thesis
Final year students are students who are in the process of working on their final project or thesis.The final project is one of the mandatory parts for students to complete academic education in the undergraduate program in the form of scientific work (KBBI, 2014)
Research conducted by Fatmawati & Sari [5] in the undergraduate nursing study program in Surakarta, obtained data that 86.8% of students experienced moderate stress, 9.4% of students experienced mild stress and 3.8% of students experienced severe stress when facing their thesis
Summary
Final year students are students who are in the process of working on their final project or thesis. Research conducted by Julianti [6] shows that 65% of final year undergraduate students in Nursing experience stress. Coping mechanism is a way of overcoming stress and anxiety by self-empowerment.[11] There are two types of coping strategies that students can use when facing problems, namely problem focused coping and emotion focused coping (Ramadhanti, 2019). The results of a preliminary study conducted on November 8, 2020 at the Faculty of Health, University of Muhammadiyah Purwokerto, obtained data on the number of undergraduate Nursing Study Program students taking theses in the 2020/2021 academic year as many as 235 students. Based on the description of the background above, the researchers are interested in conducting research on "The Effect of Giving Religious Coping Handbooks on Stress and Anxiety in Final Year Students of the Bachelor of Nursing Study Program at Muhammadiyah University of Purwokerto."
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