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Anxiety’s level of bantenes patient’s: the effect of dhikr therapy before surgical procedure

Background Anxiety is a subjective feeling which people’s feels when they faced a surgical procedure. Spirituality approach such as, dhikr can be used to reduce patient’s anxiety, especially when they are facing a medical-surgical procedure. In Banten, dhikr is an act of worship that people did, especially when they will under-taken the medical-operation. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of dhikr therapy to the decreasing of anxiety level of patients with pre-operative procedure.

Methods The research design was quasi-experiment without control-goup, and have measure the pre-operative patient’s anxiety before and after dhikr therapy. Statistical analysis by using dependent paired t-test. Samples from this study were patients who pre-operative appendictomy procedure with the total number 23 respondents that were selected by using purposive technique. Anxiety level was measured by using Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale.

Results The results of this research showed that there was found the effect of dhikr therapy to the decreasing of anxiety of pre-operative’s patient with p value = 0.000, and the mean score before intervention is 3.13, while after intervention was 1.49.

Conclusions In conclusion, anxiety can affect a person's health in particular who will undergo surgery. Anxiety can be reduced by one of them is religious approach as dhikr. With routine of dhikr someone will get a peace of mind. The inner peace will reduce the impact of stress hormones that are released when a person feels anxious.