DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PURSED LIP BREATHING AND DISTRACTIVE AUDITORY STIMULI REGARDING ANXIETY IN COPD PATIENTS

Anxiety of COPD patients is related to perceived clinical depression such as fear of acute dyspnea attacks with a sense of suffocation and fear of death. Anxiety can be treated by providing non-pharmacological therapies, namely Pursed lip breathing and distractive auditory stimuli. Pursed lip breathing is a breathing technique that helps more effectively in increasing oxygen saturation, which trains to exhale more slowly so that breathing will feel easy and more comfortable both when resting or doing activities. Distractive auditory stimuli (DAS) using classical music with a tempo of 60-80 beats/minute so as to increase patient calmness and control patient breathing patterns. This study was conducted to determine the difference between Pursed lip breathing and distractive auditory stimuli on the anxiety of COPD patients. Experimental research method two group pre-posttest design with 40 respondents taken using purposive sampling technique which each group consists of 20 respondents. Anxiety measurement tools using beck anxiety inventory. Bivariate analysis using man-whitney test . The results showed that the p-value of the Mann-Whitney test was 0.006. Conclusion: there is a difference in Pursed lip breathing and distractive auditory stimuli, indicating a decrease in the anxiety level of COPD patients