Pengaruh Senam Refleksi terhadap Kadar Hormon Kortisol dan Testosteron pada Saliva Mahasiswa Laki Laki dalam Menghadapi Ujian

Abstract

Stress in students has an impact on academic life and can be a burden for students. This stress affects the hormone cortisol as a stress biomarker and affects the testosterone hormone in saliva. Doing reflexology exercises can be an effort to increase relaxation. However, to date there has been no research comparing the effect of reflexology exercises on salivary cortisol and testosterone hormone levels in students. The aim of this study was to analyze the effect of cortisol and testosterone hormone levels on saliva before and after doing reflexology exercises in USU FKG students. This research method was pre-experimental which was carried out using a one group pretest-posttest design approach. The population in this study were USU FKG students aged 18-23 years who were taken using a purposive random sampling technique with inclusion and exclusion criteria totaling 20 subjects. Saliva was collected before and after doing reflexology exercises. Salivary cortisol and testosterone levels were measured using the ELISA method. The results showed the hormones cortisol (p=0.000), testosterone (p=0.000). There is a significant difference in the cortisol hormone after doing reflexology exercises and there is a significant difference in the testosterone hormone after doing reflexology exercises accompanied by music.. The conclusion of this research is that there is an effect of doing reflexology exercises by decreasing the hormone cortisol and increasing the hormone testosterone in male students when facing exams.