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KUALITAS TIDUR SEBELUM DAN SESUDAH RENDAM KAKI AIR HANGAT PADA LANSIA DI PANTI SOSIAL TRESNA WERDHA KARITAS

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ABSTRACT QUALITY OF SLEEP BEFORE AND AFTER SOAK WARM FEET FOOT IN ELDERLY IN SOCIAL HOUSE TRESNA WERDHA KARITAS EVIE NOVITA SILABAN NIM : 1351055 Elderly has decreased in various aspects of both biological, physiological, psychosocial, and spiritual, such as impact on sleep. Sleep is a necessity of the foundation that every human must fulfill. Sleep disorders can lead to serious problems and can even degrade the quality of life. Warm foot water soak therapy can improve blood vessel microcirculation and vasodilatation so as to create a relaxation effect followed by increased melatonin secretion so as to improve the quality of sleep. This study aims to identify whether there is influence with warm water foot bath against the disruption of sleep quality elderly in social home Tresna Werda. The method used in this research is pre experiment with one group pretest-prottest design, this research population is elderly living in social house Tresna Werda. The sample is 15 elderly selected by purposive sampling. The research instrument used was the PSQI questionnaire, before the action was given, the elderly sleep quality was "very bad" and after a "good" action was given so there was a significant difference before and after a warm foot bath treatment at Tresna Werda's Social home. For the sisters in the social home Tresna Werda can provide immersion foot warm water on the elderly in order to improve sleep disorders elderly. The results of this study are expected to be developed in subsequent research by performing warm water foot bath. In addition, research results can be developed for adults who experience sleep quality disorders. Keywords: Sleep disturbance, soak warm foot water.