The Influence of Relaxation Technique in Zikr Breathing Against Sleeping Needs for Elderly People in Nursing Home of Hargo Dedali Surabaya

Abstract

Generally, many elderly people underwent a disorder in sleeping needs, either the quality or the quantity. The elderly people often said that they had difficulty to start sleeping, they were often awakened while sleeping, and they could not sleep again. Besides, they spent the time in sleepy stage and had less time in dreaming stage. Therefore, it was needed the way for overcoming sleeping needs for elderly people that could be fulfilled and one of them was by doing relaxation technique in zikr breathing. This study aimed at analyzing relaxation technique in zikr breathing against elderly people’s needs in Nursing Home of Hargo Dedali Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia.The design of this study was Queasy Experiment. The population was all of elderly people in Nursing Home of Werdha Hargo Dedali Surabaya who fulfilled inclusion criteria and the sample were 14 respondents who were taken through simple random sampling technique. The independent variable was relaxation technique of zikr breathing, meanwhile, the dependent variable was sleeping needs.The method of data collection was through using questionnaire of The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and analyzed by using fisher exact test with significant level (α)=0,05.The result of the study showed that after being given a treatment of sleeping needs for elderly people in experimental group, most of them were qualified (71%). Meanwhile, in control group, they were more unqualified (71%). However, the result of statistical test was obtained p=0,029, which meant that there was a significant difference of sleeping needs for elderly people between experimental group and control group. Moreover, the sleeping needs for elderly people could be qualified by using relaxation technique of zikr breathing. Therefore, it was needed the implementation of this technique routinely for elderly people who underwent a problem in sleeping needs and the support from the nursing home party for enhancing elderly people’s motivation so that they did relaxation technique of zikr breathing.

Keywords: sleeping needs, relaxation technique of zikr breathing, elderly people