Peningkatan kemandirian dan kognitif lansia melalui pendidikan kesehatan tentang perkembangan psikososial lansia
Lansia mengalami perubahan fisik dan psikis. Perubahan tersebut perlu suatu upaya agar lansia mampu mempertahankan kemandiriannya dan meningkatkan kognitifnya sehingga lansia mampu menerima perubahan yang terjadi pada dirinya, sehingga perlunya upaya untuk mempertahankan kemandirian dan meningkatkan kognitif lansia. Penelitian bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh pemberian pendidikan kesehatan tentang perkembangan psikososial lansia terhadap kemandirian dan kognitif lansia. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kuantitatif dengan desain penelitian quasi experiment dengan rancangan penelitian pre and post test without control group dengan menggunakan Purposive sampling berjumlah 108 lansia. Pelitian dilakukan di kota Kendal. Hasil penelitian dianalisis univariat berupa distribusi frekuensi serta analisis bivariat menggunakan uji Chisquare. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa ada pengaruh pemberian pendidikan kesehatan tentang perkembangan psikososial terhadap kemandirian dan kognitif lansia dengan nilai p=0,000 untuk kemandirian dan nilai p = 0,002 untuk fungsi kognitif.. Kata kunci: perkembangan psikososial lansia, kemandirian, kognitif INCREASING INDEPENDENCE AND COGNITIVES OF ELDERLY THROUGH HEALTH EDUCATION CONCERNING PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF ELDERLY ABSTRACT The elderly undergo physical and psychological changes. These changes need an effort so that the elderly are able to maintain their independence and improve their cognitive so that the elderly are able to accept the changes that occur in him, so the need for efforts to maintain independence and improve cognitive elderly. The study aims to determine the effect of providing health education about the psychosocial development of the elderly on independence and cognitive elderly. This research is a quantitative study with a quasi-experimental research design with a pre-post test design without control group research using purposive sampling totaling 108 elderly. Pelitian conducted in the city of Kendal. The results of the study were analyzed univariate in the form of frequency distribution and bivariate analysis using the Chi-square test. The results showed that there was an effect of providing health education about psychosocial development on independence and cognitive elderly with a value of p = 0,000 for independence and a value of p = 0.002 for cognitive function. Keywords: psychosocial development of the elderly, independence, cognitive