The Effect of Therapy Music of Natural Sound to Anxiety in the Last Batch Students

Abstract

The Anxiety is something that is often felt by students in preparing their thesis or final project. Based on the results of the preliminary survey at the Muhammadiyah Health college Kudus on November 1, 2017 using Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale questionnaire and the result shows that 4 respondents from 10 respondents experienced severe anxiety, 4 respondents experience moderate anxiety, and 2 respondents experience mild anxiety. The anxiety can be overcome in several ways one of which is anxiety can be done with relaxation therapies such as music and nature sounds. Psychologically, music can make a person more relaxed, reduce anxiety, cause a sense of security and prosperity, release feeling happy and sad, and help and release pain.The study aims to determine the effects of nature sounds music therapy to decreases anxiety to senior college student of Muhammadiyah Health College on Kudus. The study use Quasi-experimental type using pre-test and post-test with control group design. The samples of study consisted of 32 respondents and were taken by using the purposive sampling. Control group of 16 respondents and Intervensi group of 16 respondents. The data were analyzed by Wilcoxon test. The study of the effects of nature sounds music therapy to decreases anxiety to senior college student of Muhammadiyah Health College on Kudus showed p value = 0,006 (< 0,05). There is an effects of nature sounds music therapy to decreases anxiety to senior college student of Muhammadiyah Health College on Kudus.