Peran Teknologi Informasi Kesehatan Wysa Terhadap Manajemen Ansietas Mengerjakan Skripsi Mahasiswa
Keywords:
wysa, health information technology, anxiety, thesisAbstract
Background: Anxiety is one of the mental disorders in more than 260 million people living with anxiety disorders in the world. Higher Education is a level of education programs organized by universities. Handling anxiety requires new techniques and innovations, everyone does not consider, in this case students, can tell their feelings and moods when signs of anxiety symptoms begin to be felt. Technological advances and the availability of access that can be done at any time are the expected solutions considering that mental health problems can attack anyone at any time. Research on strategies carried out to deal with anxiety still carries the risk of client data leaks, because apart from involving other people, patient confidentiality during consultations has the potential to be seen by other people or fellow clients. Based on this background, this research study will assess the role of health information technology in the form of the Wysa application via smartphone on the anxiety management abilities of students who are working on thesis.
Methods: This study used a quasi-experimental design with a pretest-posttest group design. The number of respondents was 31 active students who were undergoing a thesis preparation program for the undergraduate nursing study program. The Wysa application version 2025 was used as a research instrument.
Results: The significance value of the anxiety level in final year students who are working on their thesis after anxiety management is p-value 0.000. This result shows that there is a meaningful difference between before and after respondents used the Wysa application in overcoming the anxiety they experienced.
Conclusion: Health information technology in the form of the Wysa application that have been tested can be used privately by all individuals with signs of experiencing mental health disorders.
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