The Influence of Mandala Pattern Coloring Therapy Toward Academic Stress Level on First Grade Students at Nursing Undergraduate Study Program

Abstract

First-degree students have many experiences with academic problems, namely stress, stress is a response to the burden received. Increased stress for students causes a depressive condition that adversely affects him. Management that can be used is coloring the mandala pattern which can affect the endorphin hormone so that the individual is in a state of relaxation. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of therapeutic coloring on mandala patterns on academic stress levels in first-degree students. The research method in this study used a type of pre-experimental research with the Pretest-Posttest One Group approach. The number of samples in this study amounted to 60 first-level students with purposive sampling technique. The instruments used were the Student-life Stress Inventory questionnaire and the coloring book of the mandala pattern with measurements of stress levels carried out pre and post-test. Therapy for coloring the mandala pattern was carried out for three meetings. Analysis of the data used is a paired t-test. The results showed that before the mandala pattern coloring therapy almost all (98.3%) students experienced moderate stress, after being given mandala pattern coloring therapy almost all (78.3%) students were still experiencing moderate stress but with a decrease in percentage and a small percentage (21.7%) students experienced a decrease in stress levels to mild stress. The paired t-test results showed a sig p-value of 0,000 <α (0.05). So it can be concluded that there is a therapeutic effect of coloring mandala patterns on academic stress levels at first-level students. Based on the results of this study, institutions are expected to be able to apply color therapy to the mandala pattern as a complementary therapy in handling students who experience academic stress.