Pengaruh Senam Otak (Brain Gym) Terhadap Peningkatan Fungsi Kognitif Pada Lansia Di Unit Pelayanan Sosial Tresna Werdha Lamongan: Penelitian Quasy Exsperimental

• Main Author: Arifudin Dwi Jayanto
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Language: Indonesian
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: R Medicine; RT Nursing; RT1-120 Nursing
• Online Access: https://repository.unair.ac.id/121887/1/Arifudin%20Dwi%20Jayanto_010730485B.pdf; https://repository.unair.ac.id/121887/; http://www.lib.unair.ac.id
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

The degradation cognitive function representing which one symptom early pikun that happened at elderly. The impact continue from degradation cognitive function will happened dimensia. The effect of brain gym at elderly implementation after two month happen to the improvement cognitive function at elderly. The purpose this research is to know what is there the effect of brain gym to the improvement cognitive function at elderly in Unit Pelayanan Social Tresna Werdha Lamongan. The goal of this research was to analyze the effect of brain gym on to the improvement cognitive function at elderly. This study used Quasy Experimental design. The population was elderly in Unit Pelayanan Social Tresna Werdha Lamongan of 47 respondets. The sample was recruited using purposive sampling, consisting of 30 respondents, taken according to the inclusion criteria. Were selected and divided into 2 groups of 15 experimental groups and 15 control groups. The intervention was brain gym for 1 month (a week four times). The independent variable of research this study was brain gym and the dependent variable was cognitive function at elderly. Data were collected by using MMSE score dan demography data of respondents. Data were presented as descriptive statistics and statistical analysis was analysed by using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test and Mann Whitney Test with level of significance p ≤ 0,05. Result indicated that there was effect of brain gym to the improvement cognitive function at elderly in Unit Pelayanan Social Tresna Werdha Lamongan with statistical test Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test p = 0,001 (p ≤ 0,05). There are difference of level cognitive function experimental groups and control groups at elderly in Unit Pelayanan Social Tresna Werdha Lamongan with statistical test Mann-Whitney Test p = 0,001 (p ≤ 0,05). The conclusion of this research is improvement cognitive function at elderly after intervention was brain gym. This matter because of brain gym represent simple movement method able to coordinated brain function return so that brain activity more optimal later can improve memory function, recall, concentration.