THE EFFECT OF WRITING THERAPY ON ANXIETY IN PREGNANT WOMEN IN THE WORKING AREA OF THE PAYUNG SEKAKI HEALTH CENTER PEKANBARU

Abstract

Anxiety in pregnant women is a reaction to physical, emotional, and psychological changes that occur during pregnancy. Factors that cause anxiety in pregnant women are physical changes such as complaints of nausea and vomiting, dizziness, fatigue easily, changes in body shape. Primigravida women are prone to anxiety because of the lack of pregnancy experience. Anxiety in pregnancy, if not addressed as soon as possible, will have a negative impact and result in complications for the mother and fetus. Anxiety management can be done with non-pharmacological treatment, namely by doing writing therapy. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect  of writing therapy on anxiety in pregnant women in the working area of the Payung Sekaki Health Center in Pekanbaru. The type of research used in the research is quantitative and quasi-experimental  design research.The sampling technique used is non-probability sampling with a total sampling  method of 16 respondents. The research was conducted on December 16 – December 28. The instrument used for the SOP for the implementation of  the  PASS (Perinatal Anxiety Screening Scale) writing therapy intervention was processed by a paired sample t test. The results of the study showed that there was a decrease in the anxiety value of respondents after writing therapy was carried out from  the pretest 36.1250 and the posttest 21.1250, the results of the t-test obtained a p-value of 0.000 which means a p-value < 0.005, so that there was an effect of writing therapy on anxiety in pregnant women. The conclusion obtained was that there was a change in the average value of anxiety in pregnant women before and after the  writing intervention was carried out. In conducting this research, it is hoped that they can use the right time so as to get more optimal results.

Keyword: Anxiety 1; Pregnant women 2; writing therapy 3.