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THE EFFECT OF HOME BASED EXERCISE TRAINING TOWARD THE ANXIETY LEVELS OF CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE PATIENTS IN BORNEO HOSPITAL
Annisa Rahmawati*, Lidia Hastuti, Ridha Mardiyani, Wuriani and Uji Kawuryan
ABSTRACT
Background: Congestive heart failure is a chronic disease; the condition causes a person feel anxiety. Anxiety occurs because the patients know their heart’s function does not work properly, so they feel that it threatened to health, fear of death, and disability. One of the interventions to patient in order to reduce the anxiety is through home based exercise training (HBET). Objective: This study aimed to analyze the effect of HBET toward the anxiety level of congestive heart failure patients. Methodology: The design of this study was quasi experiment pre-post without control group. The sampling collection technique was consecutive sampling and there were 26 respondents. Place of the research was in Dr. Soedarso Hospital, Pontianak, West Kalimantan. The collection data of Anxiety level used HRS-A questionnaire. The paired t test was used to analyze the data. Result: The research result showed that there decreased of anxiety score before and after intervention with average score of 8.62 and (p-value 0.000). Conclusion: Based on the results of the study, there was HBET influence toward the anxiety level of patients of congestive heart failure. HBET may used as one of the interventions to reduce the anxiety of congestive heart failure patients, especially for post-hospital care patients.
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