KOMUNIKASI TERAPEUTIK PERAWAT MENURUNKAN KECEMASAN KELUARGA PASIEN KRITIS

Anxiety can happened to critical patient's family because fear of something bad or death in the family. Anxiety can be reduced with the administration of therapeutic communication that shapes the relationship of nurses with patients and their families with the needs of safety, comfort, education and nursing services. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of nurses’ therapeutic communication to the anxiety level of the critical patients family.

The design of this study was Pre - Experiment One Group Pre - Post Test. The sample consisted of 18 subjects were selected by using purposive sampling room High Care Unit of the Hospital Muhammadiyah Gresik. The independent variables in this study was a therapeutic communication while the dependent variable was anxiety level of critical patients family. Data was retrieved using a questionnaire. This study used a statistical test Wilcoxon signed rank test with significance level <0.05. Anxiety family of critically ill patients prior to therapeutic communication room most of severe anxiety (83.3%). After the therapeutic communication most of moderate anxiety (55.6%). The results of the analysis obtained value α = 0.000. It means there was effect of nurses’ therapeutic communication to the anxiety level of the critical patients family. Nurses’ therapeutic communication can decrease family anxiety. Nurses should apply therapeutic communication as an independent intervention in an effort to reduce family anxiety critical patients.