BRAIN GYM TERHADAP TINGKAT STRES PADA MAHASISWA PROGRAM STUDI ILMU KEPERAWATAN FAKULTAS ILMU KESEHATAN UNIVERSITAS KADIRI

Abstract

Students experience stress from various sources. One of the sources is academic problems
which is associated with the failure of students in completing the academic demands. The
survey is done by 20 student of nursing departemen in the eight semester showed that 11 of
them got stress in medium level and 9 stress in low level. One method to reduce srtess is to
brain gym. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of exercise on the brain towards
stress level on nursing students VIII semester of the Faculty of Health Science, University of
Kadiri. A pre-post quasy experimental control group design was used in this study with
Random sampling technique of all ofnursing students VIII semester of the Faculty of Health
Science, University of Kadiri. The result of post test for threatment froup used Wilcoxon test
was gotten P-value 0,025 while for control group was gotten p-value = 0,157. The analyze
result used Man Whitney with P-value = 0,032 with α = 0,05. It showed there is an influence
of brain gym toward stress level of nursing students in eight semester of Health Science
Faculty of Kadiri University. The motion of brain gym can activate neocortex and
parasympathy nerve to reduce the increase of adrenalin hormon in the body.