The Effectiveness Relaxation Techniques and SEFT towards Children’s Stres at Rehabilitation Center for Inmate Children Bandung

Abstract

Background : Problems often accure in children who are undergoing training at Rehabilitation Center for Inmate Children Bandung is a need in the adjustment. The failure of adjustment will cause stress, if not addressed there will be fatigue. Fatigue caused because they can not adapt to the threats can reduce the body's resistance to the threats that exist, if it continues will cause disruption getting worse, for it takes the intervention. One intervention that can be done is with complementary therapies, such as relaxation techniques. Relaxation techniques that can be used is the relaxation breathing and SEFT. Both of these relaxation techniques to relax the muscles that spasme which causes vasodilation of blood vessels and increases blood flow to areas experiencing spasms or tense.

Method :   This study aims to determine the effectiveness of relaxation techniques and SEFT in reducing the stress of children at rehabilitation center for inmate children in Bandung, using Quasi Experiment pre and post test randomized two-group design, with a sample of 58 people, 29 samples of relaxation group and 29 samples of group SEFT

Result and Conclusion:  The result showed a significant difference on average stress between relaxation with SEFT (p value : 0.000), so that it can be concluded that the relaxation and SEFT can reduce stress, but SEFT more effective in lowering the child's stress at Rehabilitation Center for inmate Children Bandung.