Effect of Pursed Lips Breathing and Distract Auditory Stimuli Against Dyspnea

Dyspnea in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is often interpreted as an uncomfortable condition due to breathing difficulties, not only the sensation of subjectivity, but also as a serious respiratory symptom. Pursed lips Breathing (PLB) is a widely used therapy in lung rehabilitation during daily activity in COPD patients, besides this therapy technique has benefits by reducing symptoms and improving quality of life. To reduce the uncomfortable condition due to difficulty breathing and sensation of subjectivity in COPD patients can be done with auditory stimuli using Distractive Auditory Stimuli (DAS), DAS is a non-pharmacological therapy that can be used. to reduce the sensation of dyspnea in patients with COPD. Methods: This research uses quasi experiment type research with pretest approach - posttest with control group design. Patients of COPD who become respondents are divided into 2 groups, group 1 is given PLB and DAS, group 2 is given PLB. Result: The result of this study shows the comparison of pre test for PLB and DAS group has mean and SD (3,19 and 0,75), whereas in PLB group have mean and SD (2,81 and 0,83) with significance level 0,01 (p> 0,05). Comparison of Post test for PLB and DAS group has mean and SD (2,44 and 0,89) meanwhile SD and PLB (2,31 and 0,94) with significance level 0,03 ( p> 0.05). Conclusion: It can be concluded that between PLB and DAS therapy compared to PLB alone have a significant differenc