The Differences of Eldery Women Quality of life Who Undergo Brain Movement Exercise and Angklung Music Therapy

Journal Title: Journal of Ners and Midwifery (Jurnal Ners dan Kebidanan) - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 1

Abstract

The increasing of life expectancy should be balanced with the improvement of health service to preserve the quality of life among elderly. That is including various therapy activity program which is believed can increase the quality of life for instance with brain movement exercise and Angklung music therapy. Brain movement exercise is the activity to increase cognitive function, while Angklung music therapy is to developing local wisdom. The aim of this study was to analyze the differences of quality of life among women elderly whose undergo brain movement exercise and angklung music therapy. The study design was an experimental pre and post design without con- trol. The study was taken place at Tresna Werdha Nursing Home. The subject was 30 healthy elderly women, consist of 15 elderly who undergo brain movement exercise and 15 elderly angklung music therapy, whose age were 60-90 years. The instrument used was WHOQOL-BREF. Shapiro-Wilk test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Wilcoxon test, and Mann-Whitney U test were used to analyze the data. The results showed there were difference in the quality of life eldery woman who follow brain movement exercise and angklung music therapy in physical domain (0.009) and enviroment domain (0.000), and there was no significant difference in sosial relationship (0.092) and psychological (0.915). The result showed brain movement exercise and Angklung music therapy could affect the quality of life in certain domains, this was possible because there was various benefit in each therapy program. Therefore it was suggested that brain movement exercise and angklung music therapy were imple- mented in all nursing house units in Indonesia.

Authors and Affiliations

Suci Tuty Putri

Keywords

Related Articles

The Implementation of Language Development and Speak Stimulation To Child Age 0-3 Years In The Family At Posyandu Seruni Bendogerit Sanan Wetan Blitar

Stimulation is an activity to stimulate the basic ability of children so that children grow and develop optimally especially in language and speech development because it is an indicator of the whole development of child...

The Relationship Between Family Support with Depression Levels for HIV/AIDS Patients

AIDS is a collection of specific clinical conditions that are the end result of infection by HIV. This raises the issue of psychiatric illness, namely depression. Depression is what causes the quality of life of patients...

Oldest Mental Status In PSLU Tulungagung

Old age is the final stage of the human life cycle and will inevitably be experienced by every individual, who will undergo physical and mental changes. The purpose of this study was to describe the mental status of the...

Family Effort in Fulfilling Personal Hygiene for Mental Disorderpeople

Personal hygiene is a necessity of every person including people with mental disorder. People who are able to fulfill this needs during lives at home is family. The main personal hygiene that needs to be fulfilled is the...

Faktor pendorong pemanfaatan layanan Voluntary Counselling and Testing (VCT) oleh lelaki suka dengan lelaki (LSL) di LSM gaya nusantara

Abtract: Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) is one of the government programs to prevent trans- mission of HIV/AIDS must done by Men Sex With Men (MSM). But there are still MSM who have not utilized VCT services. Thi...

Download PDF file
  • EP ID EP233747
  • DOI -
  • Views 50
  • Downloads 0

How To Cite

Suci Tuty Putri (2017). The Differences of Eldery Women Quality of life Who Undergo Brain Movement Exercise and Angklung Music Therapy. Journal of Ners and Midwifery (Jurnal Ners dan Kebidanan), 4(1), 28-34. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-233747