Hubungan antara komunikasi terapeutik dengan tingkat kecemasan klienpra operasi digestif di ruang instalasi bedah sentral RSUD Dr. Saiful Anwar Malang

Pre-digestive surgery patients have the potential to experience anxiety, to reduce anxiety one of them is needed therapeutic communication, namely communication that is planned and carried out to help healing/praparation of praoperative patients. The reason for this ponder was to analyze how the relationship between nurture restorative communication and uneasiness levels in pra-digestive surgery
patients within the Central Surgical Establishment Room of RSUD dr. Saiful Anwar Malang. This type of research uses quantitative methods, the research design is a cross-sectional study, and the research design uses correlation. The samples in this study were 58 pra digestive surgery patients and 35 Operating Room nurses in the Central Surgical Establishment Room of RSUD dr. Saiful Anwar Malang who met the inclusion criteria. The questionnaire used by the Zung Self Anxiety Rating Scale (ZSAS) consisted of 20 questions for data collection. From the analysis using the Spearman Rank correlation test, with an error rate of 5%, the results obtained a P value of 0.024 <a (0.05). The relationship between therapeutic communication and anxiety levels of praoperative patients in the Central Surgical Establishment Room, RSUD Dr. Saiful Anwar Malang is significant. The closeness of the relationship of 0.311 is negative with moderate strength. The way better the therapeutic communication, the lower the anxiety level of pra-digestive surgery patients. Nurses provide praoperative information which is part of therapeutic communication, thus developing a sense of mutual trust in which there is an art of healing in the communication, namely overcoming the anxiety of patients in the Central.Surgical.Establishment Room of RSUD dr. Saiful Anwar Malang. It is recommended that the hospital provide therapeutic communication training regularly to nurses.