The Effects of Sundanese Kacapi Suling “Ayun Ambing” Music Therapy to The Level of Anxiety on Chronic Renal Failure Patient Undergoing Hemodialysis

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The Effects of Sundanese Kacapi Suling “Ayun Ambing” Music Therapy to The Level of Anxiety on Chronic Renal Failure Patient Undergoing Hemodialysis Mustopa Saepul1 , Laili Rahayuwati2 , Chandra Isabella Hostanida Purba2 Universitas Muhammadiyah Sukabumi, Faculty of Nursing, Universitas Padjadjaran Email: ners_saepul@yahoo.com Submitted: 24-7-2017 Accepted: 30-4-2018 Published: 30-4-2018 Abstract One of the most common psychological problems found in patients with chronic renal failure (ESRD) undergoing hemodialysis is anxiety. Unresolved anxiety can have a negative impact on physiological and psychological conditions that can aggravate the condition of the disease. Traditional Sundanese music therapy Kacapi Suling “Ayun Ambing” has a slow tempo and soft so that it can be used as a therapy. The design used was a Quasy Experimental, with a pretest-posttest control group design approach, involved 46 patients divided into control groups (23) and intervention groups (23) taken by purposive sampling. The intervention group get given music a week 2 times with time 30 minutes for 2 weeks. Anxiety levels were measured using HARS (Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale) before and after intervention. The control group received standard interventions provided by the Hospital. Data were analyzed by parametric and non-parametric test with Paired t test, Independent t test and Mann Whitney test. Differences of average before and after in two groups with the tested paired t test showed no significant difference with p value <0.05 whereas for differences in the average change of scores between the intervention and control group with independent t test showed there was a significant difference with p value 0.05. An implication of this research and literature review were that Sundanese Kacapi Suling Music could be considered and applied as a complementary theraphy to decrease the anxety of client, particularly ESRD undergoing hemodialysis. Keywords: Anxiety, Chronic Kidney Failure, Hemodialysis, Music Kacapi Suling.