Decrease Anxiety among Students Who Will Do the Objective Structured Clinical Examination with Deep Breathing Relaxation Technique

BACKGROUND: The anxiety is an emotional and subjective experience without any specific object so that people feel a feeling of worry as if something bad will happen and generally accompanied by autonomic symptoms lasting some time. Like students who will carry out the OSCE exam at the end of each semester as a form of evaluation of the extent to which nursing students have mastered the learning outcomes that have been set during the OSCE examination during the OSCE examination all students are required to display cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills quickly, precisely complete. This is what generally can cause anxiety in students. AIM: We aimed to determine the decrease in student anxiety about the OSCE exam by relaxing deep breathing. MATERIAL AND METHODS: This study was a quasi-experiment; pre-post test with control group design. The 40 undergraduate nursing program students with random sampling were divided into two, namely the control group and the intervention group. The instrument uses a questionnaire. RESULTS: The independent t-test test results with a value of t count 3.743 with a value of p = 0.031 < 0.05, which that there was a decrease in student anxiety about the OSCE exam with deep breath relaxation. CONCLUSION: It is expected that all students who will carry out the exam can apply this technique to carry out the exam in calm conditions and satisfying results.