Therapy Spiritual Technique of Dzikir Towards The Level of Anxiety in Nursing Students Before Taking Practicum Examination: A Quasi Experiment

Abstract

Practicum examination is one of the factors affecting anxiety that leads students cannot take examinations well. Therefore, it is necessary to find ways to reduce anxiety. This research aimed to find out the effects of the spiritual technique of dzikir towards the level of anxiety in students before taking the practicum examination. The research design used a quasi-experimental pre-posttest one-group design. The variable measured was the level of anxiety in students before taking practicum examination. Technique of selecting sample used was purposive sampling with the number of population was 59 people. The number of samples used was 10 respondents. The level of anxiety was measured by using the Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS) questionnaire. The respondents were doing dzikir an hour before taking the exam. The dzikir used was Tashbih (subhanallah), Tahmid (Alhamdulillah), Tahlil (Laa ilaahaaillallah), and Takbir (Allahuakbar) as much as 33 times for 15 minutes. The result shows that 70% of respondents had medium anxiety and 30% had severe anxiety before doing dzikir. After doing dzikir, the level of anxiety was reduced. 80% of respondents had no anxiety and 20% of respondents had mild anxiety. The research showed that there were effects of the spiritual technique of dzikir towards the level of anxiety in students before taking the practicum exam. It is recommended that students do dzikir to reduce anxiety before taking the exam.