<![CDATA[Background: Anxiety is a disorders that has symptoms of heart, dizzy, wet palm and foot or emotionaldisorders such as discomfort feeling, difficult to concentrate, worried, exhaustness, insomnia, less appetite. Thiscondition often occurred in students of Nursing Academy of Notokusumo Yogyakarta when they are facing finalexamination. This is obtained from a preliminary research that was conducted by giving question on thecondition experienced by the students of Akper Notokusumo Yogyakarta regarding their worryness in facing theexamination with subject of 100 students that was held on the 8th â 11th of Mey 2012Objective: This research was aimed to find out the influence of muscle relaxation in decreasing the TMASanxiety score of students in facing their final examination.Method: This was a quasi experimental design with randomized control group pre test and post test design thatwas research subjects who were classified into two groups that were treatment group that was located in AkperNotokusumo with 100 students class 3A and 3B control group that was located in Akper Notokusumo withsubjects of 50 students class 3 C. Both of the groups were given pre test before given treatment, and yet, onegroup was given post test after treatment while the other group was given post test without treatment. Theintsrument being used was Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (TMAS). The analysis being used to examine thedifference of treatment and control group was conducted with independet sample t test with significance level ofp = 0.05.Result : The result of the research showed that there was a decreasing on anxiety from pre test to post test. Incontrol group, there was no decreasing of anxiety from pre test to post test even there was an improvementduring post test.Conclusion: Relaxation had influence in decreasing anxiety of student of Nursing Academy of NotokusumoYogyakarta as treatment group and the result was lower during post test compared to pre test.Keyword: anxiety, to relaxation, student]]>
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