Overcoming elderly anxiety through Kidung Wargasari

Abstract

Anxiety disorders can be interpreted as a heightened tension that results in feelings of helplessness, loss of control and excessive subjective judgment of the interpersonal communication process. Anxiety disorders an ongoing basis often haunt the health of those who have reached a late age (the elderly). However, the elderly in the Tresna Werdha Foundation area, Blahkiuh village, Abiansemal, Badung Regency, Bali Province did not. They are known to love singing the Wargasari. They do not appear to have anxiety disorders about health as the elderly in general. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of Wargasari as therapy in dealing with anxiety disorders among the elderly in the Tresna Werdha Foundation area, Blahkiuh village, Abiansemal, Badung Regency, Bali Province. This type of research is quantitative with a pretest-posttest one-group pre-experimental design. A sample of 67 elderly, who experienced anxiety and selected in total sampling, data were analyzed with the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. The results showed that the average anxiety before giving Wargasari therapy was 36.90 (severe anxiety), and after being given Wargasari therapy the average was 23.00 (moderate anxiety). The p-value of 0.001