Menurunkan tingkat depresi melalui acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) pada ODHA

Abstract

Acceptance and commitment therapy is an intervention that can affect the decrease in depression levels in PLWHA. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy in reducing depression levels of PLWHA. This study uses a quantitative method with a quasi-experimental one-group pretest-posttest design. The subjects in this study amounted to six people. The measuring instrument used in this study is the DASS 42 instrument. The results of this study conclude that ACT is effective in reducing depression levels of PLWHA, the decrease in depression levels can be seen from the significant difference between depression scores at pretest and posttest. Z value=-2.201 with p=0.028 and there is a decrease between the mean pretest and mean posttest, so that ACT can be given as a method of recovery program for PLWHA.