The Effectiveness of Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique (SEFT) Therapy against the Reduction of Work Fatigue in PT WIKA Beton Makassar

The purpose of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique therapy to reduce work fatigue in workers at PT. WIKA Beton Makassar. This type of research was a quantitative approach with a quasi-experimental research method, and the research design used was a pretest-posttest control group design. In this study, the population was 60 workers and was taken into a sample of 38 respondents. Those were divided into 19 respondents in the experimental group and 19 respondents in the comparison or control group using a purposive sampling technique for sampling. The results of the different tests using the Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks test as the non-parametric analysis found that the intervention group value of ρ 0.000 <0.005 was obtained, and the control group got a value of ρ 0.001 <0.005. It indicated differences at the level of fatigue before and after therapy, both in the intervention and control group. Then the results of the Mann-Whitney test as the non-parametric comparison analysis showed that the intervention group got a value of ρ 0.000 <0.005, while the control group obtained a value of ρ 0.035 <0.005. The results of the analysis indicated that Spiritual Emotional Freedom Technique therapy was more effective in reducing work fatigue compared to the untreated control group. It is suggested that the results of this study can be a reference for company leaders, workers, and also future researchers to use SEFT therapy as an alternative therapy in reducing physical and psychological problems such as work fatigue.