Pengaruh Cognitive behavioural Therapy Terhadap Tingkat Kecemasan Pada Pasien Gagal Jantung Kongestif Di RSUD Ir. Soekarno Kabupaten Sukoharjo

Background: Congestive heart failure causes not only physical problems, psychological problems also often arise with predisposing factors such as: the patient is worried if the disease can not heal, the prognosis worsens, until thinking about his death so that the patient looks restless, difficult to rest and not excited so that causes stress, powerlessness, fear and anxiety. One method of psychotherapy that is effective in dealing with anxiety is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Purpose: to find out whether there is a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy influence with anxiety level in congestive heart failure patients. Method: Quasi-Experiment with pretest and posttest with Control Group design with simple random sampling (lottery technique). The research was conducted at RSUD Ir. Soekarno Kab. Sukoharjo with 15 respondents in each control group and intervention group. The instruments used were The Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS) 21 to determine the level of anxiety. Test to find out data analysis using t-test. Results: data analysis with paired t-test showed p= 0.001 in the intervention group which means that there is a difference between the CBT results between before and after the intervention is given. Test the independent sample t-test on the data before treatment, obtained t count of 0.309 with a significance of p = 0.760, it means there is no difference in the level of anxiety between the intervention group and the control group before action is taken. While the results of data analysis after treatment obtained t count of 2.562 with a significance of p = 0.016, then Ho is rejected which means that there is a difference in the results of the level of anxiety between the intervention group and the control group after an action. Conclusion: shows the influence of cognitive behavioural therapy on anxiety levels of heart failure patients in the control group and intervention group. Keywords: Anxiety, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Congestive heart failure