Pengelolaan Pelayanan dan Asuhan Keperawatan dengan Gangguan Kecemasan pada Lansia melalui Terapi Senam Yoga di Kelurahan Pulo Brayan Bengkel Baru

Abstract

A person's anxiety level can be influenced by the health problems they experience, one health problem that often appears in the elderly is hypertension. An effective way to reduce anxiety is by doing yoga exercises. This research aims to identify the management of nursing services and care for anxiety disorders in the elderly through yoga exercise therapy in the Pulo Brayan Workshop Baru sub-district. Data was collected through interviews, observation and direct questionnaires. The instrument used is an assessment format containing demographic data and an anxiety questionnaire taken from the Geriatric Anxiety Scale. Researchers used a nursing process approach, this research was conducted on one respondent aged 67 years with anxiety disorders. Where the results were obtained when assessing the respondent's anxiety level with a score of 30 in the moderate anxiety category and providing therapy through yoga exercises for 5 days with the final result being an anxiety score of 21 in the mild anxiety category. These results show that yoga exercise is effective in reducing the respondents' anxiety levels and blood pressure.