PENGARUH STIMULASI KUTANEUS: SLOW STROKE BACK MASSAGE TERHADAP PENINGKATAN KUALITAS TIDUR PADA LANSIA DI GRIYA LANSIA SANTO YOSEF SURABAYA

Elderly is susceptible of declining sleep quality. There are several causes of decrease sleep qualities such as; increasing of sleep latency, decreasing of sleep efficiency, waking up earlier and unable back to sleep. One of non-pharmacological method, Cutaneous Stimulation: Slow Stroke Back Massage, helps the patient to increase their sleep quality. Moreover, it represents as a positive experience of individual in order to improve relaxation and sleep quality. This research used a quasi-experimental design. There were 32 elderly, who has sleep disorders, becomes an object research of this study in GriyaUsila Santo Yosep Surabaya. These object research were categorized into two groups (treatment & control). This researches used Total Sampling’s data collection method. Moreover, it used cutaneous stimulation: Slow Stroke Back Massage as an independent variable and improvement of sleep quality as dependent variable. Besides that, this research uses PSQI (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index) questionnaire to collect the data. Furthermore, it used Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test and Mann Whitney Test to analyze significance level α ≤0.05. The result of statistic obtains value p=0.001 (0.001 < 0.05) in Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test and value a=0.000 (0.000 < 0.05) in Mann Whitney Test.The final analysis shows that cutaneous stimulation: Slow Stroke Back Massage affects the improvement of sleep quality an elderly in GriyaUsila Santo Yosep Surabaya