Pengaruh progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) terhadap kualitas tidur lansia

Abstract

Abstract Background: Elderly people have poor sleep quality which disrupts their activities during the day. Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) is a simple relaxation method that goes through two processes, namely tensing and relaxing the muscles of the body and is one of the techniques that can reduce sleep quality in the elderly. Purpose: To determine the effect of progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) on sleep quality in the elderly. Method: Quantitative research type with pre-experimental one group pretest-posttest design. The population of all elderly people at the Labuhan Ratu Health Center was 342 elderly people with a sample size of 20 respondents. Sampling used purposive sampling technique and data analysis used the Wilcoxon test. Results: The average sleep quality of the elderly before the intervention was 10.30 with a standard deviation of 2,080, a range of values 7-15, while the average sleep quality of the elderly after the intervention decreased to 5.35 with a standard deviation of 1,599, a range of values 4-9. The difference in the average value before and after PMR was 4.95 with a standard deviation difference of 0.481. Conclusion: There was a difference in the average sleep quality of the elderly before and after the intervention PMR with a statistical test result of p-value 0.000 (<0.05), so there was an effect of PMR on the sleep quality of the elderly. Suggestion: PMR can be done independently at home and as an additional therapy that can be used to improve sleep quality. Keywords: Elderly; Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR); Sleep Quality.