Metode Relaksasi Untuk Menurunkan Stres dan Keluhan Tukak Lambung pada Penderita Tukak Lambung Kronis

Individual disability to manage stress results the body become susceptible to diseases so that some physical disorders like gastritis enable to see. Gastritis represent one of psychosomatic disorders, a physiological disorder caused by a major psychologicalfactor, stress as a common. This research is aimed to test the relaxation method that is used to lessen stress and the sigh of gastritis pain for the patients of chronic gastritis. The researchapplies the single case experimental design. Subjects of the research are three women who get treatment of Imagery Relaxation Therapy and Muscle Relaxation Therapyfor three times. Then, they are monitored by self monitoring for 3 weeks. The instruments used in this experiment are Scale of Stress compiled by Prawitasari (1989), and Sigh of Gastritis Pain Scale adapted from Sigh. of Physical Gastritis Scale compiled by Sutrisno (1998). The data analysed in manual through some visual inspection to compare the level of stress and sigh of gastritis pain of each subject among the baseline, treatment and follow-up. Results showed that there is decreasesof stress and sigh of gastritis pain of the subjects. They also showed clinical significancy