TY  - JOUR
T1  - The Effectiveness of Religion as Therapy for People Living with
HIV (PLHIV) in Malang Indonesia
AU - Sunaringsih Ika Wardojo, Sri AU - Rosadi, Rakhmad 
JO  - Research Journal of Medical Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 1
SP  - 58
EP  - 61
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1815-9346
DO  - rjmsci.2017.58.61
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=rjmsci.2017.58.61
KW  - experimental
KW  -People Living with HIV (PLHIV)
KW  -therapy
KW  -Religion
KW  -comprises
AB  - This study aimed to identify the effectiveness of religion as therapy for People Living with HIV
(PLHIV) in Malang, Indonesia. It was quasi experimental study which comprises two groups namely
experimental and control groups. The experimental group received intensive religion program for 6 month while
control group didn’t receive any intervention. The population of this study were 7.650 male and female adults
(18-40 year old) who diagnosed with HIV during 2012-2014 and registered in Health Department of Malang. The
sample were 100 respondents and it’s divided into 50 respondents on the experimental groups and 50
respondents on the control groups. Simple random sampling technique were used in this study. Instrument
used were PSS-10, a validated questionnaire developed by Cohen to assess psychological condition
(state anxiety, trait anxiety and HIV-related symptomatology) of the respondents between these groups. While,
descriptive statistic and Independent t-test were used to analyse the data. As a result, there were
significance difference between the outcome of these two groups (p<&alpha;). It shown that state anxiety, trait anxiety
and HIV-related symptomatology in the experimental groups have been minimized greater than the control
groups, after religion intervention program were given.In other words, religion has been effectively used as a
therapy for PLHIV in Malang, Indonesia.
ER  -