One of the most common psychological problems found in patients with chronic renal failure (ESRD) undergoing hemodialysis is anxiety. Unresolved anxiety can have a negative impact on physiological and psychological conditions that can aggravate the condition of the disease. Traditional Sundanese music therapy Kacapi Suling "Ayun Ambing" has a slow tempo and soft so that it can be used as a therapy. The design used was a Quasy Experimental, with a pretest-posttest control group design approach, involved 46 patients divided into control groups (23) and intervention groups (23) taken by purposive sampling. The intervention group get given music a week 2 times with time 30 minutes for 2 weeks. Anxiety levels were measured using HARS (Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale) before and after intervention. The control group received standard interventions provided by the Hospital. Data were analyzed by parametric and non-parametric test with Paired t test, Independent t test and Mann Whitney test. Differences of average before and after in two groups with the tested paired t test showed no significant difference with p value <0.05 whereas for differences in the average change of scores between the intervention and control group with independent t test showed there was a significant difference with p value 0.05. An implication of this research and literature review were that Sundanese Kacapi Suling Music could be considered and applied as a complementary theraphy to decrease the anxety of client, particularly ESRD undergoing hemodialysis.
Bronchial asthma is a condition in which the airways narrow due to hypersensitivity to certain stimuli, which causes inflammation. Eucalyptus is a plant that is often used as a drug by inhalation because it contains terpenes, porphyrin derivatives, and other phenolic compounds for pharmacological activity. Eucalyptus can be inhaled to produce local or systemic effects through inhalation by inhalation using a vapor, nebulizer, or aerosol spray. This study aims to carry out nursing assessments for clients who experience asthma, establish nursing diagnoses for clients who experience asthma, develop nursing plans for clients who experience asthma, carry out nursing actions for clients who experience asthma, carry out nursing evaluations for clients who experience asthma, perform discussion of the results of the application of eucalyptus aromatherapy to clients who experience asthma. The research method was carried out qualitatively with a content analysis approach to patients directly. The results obtained prove that there is an effective effect in administering simple steam aromatherapy eucalyptus inhalation therapy to asthma sufferers.
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