The Effectiveness Differences Between The Guided Imagery and Mozart Music Toward The Anxiety of Pregnant Women With The Pre-eclampsia Risk

Abstract

Pregnant women suffer from pre-eclampsia risk. This matter is strongly correlated to various influential factors, such as the anxiety of pregnant women. Thus, this matter must receive immediate care to maintain the emotional condition and blood pressure of the women. One of the given care is - providing non-pharmacological care to manage anxiety. The realization could be administering guided imagery relaxation and listening to Mozart's music. This research determined the effectiveness differences between guided imagery relaxation and Mozart music toward the anxiety of pregnant women with pre-eclampsia risk. This experimental research applied two group pretest-posttest design. The researchers took 32 samples with purposive sampling. The applied questionnaire instrument was HARS. The results showed that the first intervention group, receiving Mozart music, suffered from severe anxiety (43.8%). After the intervention with Mozart's music, a percentage of 56.3% of respondents did not suffer from anxiety. In the second group, receiving the guided imagery intervention, 40.6% of respondents suffered from mild anxiety. After the intervention of guided imagery, 68.8% of patients did not suffer from anxiety. The Mann-Whitney statistic of both non-paired groups found a p-value of 0.148, indicating no effectiveness difference between the guided imagery and Mozart's music intervention toward the anxiety of pregnant women with pre-eclampsia risk. The researchers concluded the intervention of guided imagery and Mozart's music therapies could relieve the anxiety of pregnant women with pre-eclampsia risk. The researcher recommends the results as the reference and further implementation by respondents to manage the pre-eclampsia risk factor.