The Effect of Mindfulness Therapy on students anxiety in process of conducting research paper at the Institute of Health Science Wira Medika Bali

Abstract

Students are individuals who are studying well in tertiary institutions. During the academic process, students will complete the final project at the undergraduate level of the thesis called the final student. Students must continue the final project to complete their academic education. One problem that arises in the final student is anxiety. Anxiety is an emotional response that arises due to some stressors of students while working on their thesis such as feeling confused, low motivation, difficulty in solving problems when facing thesis. One popular complementary therapy for overcoming anxiety is mindfulness therapy. Vigilance therapy can reduce difficulties in encouraging awareness and not reactivating the surrounding situations. This study aims to study whether there is support for mindfulness therapy for anxiety in the final year students of STIKes Wira Medika Bali. This type of research is a pre-designed research in the form of one group research before the test. The population of this research is the active students of class VII of class 9. The technique of taking the sample of the study was using porpusive sampling with Wilcoxon test. The results obtained were significant p-value = 0.002 which means p-value <α = 0.05, the results of the analysis showed there were differences in levels of anxiety before and given mindfulness therapy to final-level students. Based on the results of the study, attention therapy is suggested as an alternative therapy in an effort to help final students.