PENGARUH PEMBERIAN AROMATERAPI LAVENDER TERHADAP KECEMASAN MAHASISWA S1 KEPERAWATAN DALAM PENYUSUNAN SKRIPSI DI STIKES WIRA HUSADA YOGYAKARTA

Background: Anxiety can arise from objective personal experiences that can arise from oneself. In the learning process at the college level, nursing students experience anxiety in addition to theory, laboratory practicum, and field practice, namely the preparation of the thesis. This can affect sleep disturbances, stress, lack of concentration and changes in eating hours. Giving lavender aromatherapy will stimulate the limbic system which is the center of pain, pleasure, anger, fear, depression and various other emotions. Furthermore, the messages will be forwarded by the hypothalamus to be stimulated by the brain and secrete serotonin which can have an anti-anxiety effect.

Objective: To find out whether there is an effect of giving lavender aromatherapy to students' anxiety in writing a thesis.

Methods: This type of quantitative experimental research, with a preexperimental method, a one-group pre-post test design, was conducted at STIKES Wira Husada Yogyakarta. The sample consisted of 48 students who were given lavender aromatherapy and selected purposive sampling technique. Collecting data using Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HARS) questionnaire, with Wilcoxon Statistical Test analysis.

Results:. There is an effect of anxiety before and after giving lavender aromatherapy with p value = 0.000 (<0.05), then giving lavender aromatherapy can reduce anxiety in students in writing thesis.

Conclusion: Lavender aromatherapy has an effect on student anxiety in writing thesis at STIKES Wira Husada Yogyakarta.