The Effectiveness of Reflective-Intuitive Al Fatihah Reading Therapy in Reducing Autoimmune Survivor Stress

<p>This study aims to investigate the employment of a reflective-intuitive reading of the Al Fatihah chapter as a therapy to decrease stress levels in patients with autoimmune. Conducting experimental research, the research design of this study is a non-randomized pretest-posttest control group and the participant recruited are female Muslims suffering from one of the autoimmune diseases. In this research, to measure stress levels, this study adapts a stress subtest of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) in which the Indonesian language is used to administer the scale. The therapy itself adopts Maulana, Subandi, and Asturi’s (2016) module of a reflective-intuitive reading of the Al Fatihah chapter. The data are analyzed through the Mann-Whitney U-Test in order to figure out the differences of the levels of stress in the experimental group before and after the intervention given and afterward to compare it to the control group. This study reveals the meaning process in the reflective-intuitive reading of the Al Fatihah for a particular time could decrease the levels of stress of patients with an autoimmune disease. </p><p> </p><p><em>Penelitian ini </em><em>bertujuan untuk mengkaji peran terapi membaca Al Fatihah reflektif-intuitif dalam penurunan tingkat stres pada pasien autoimun. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode eksperimen kuasi dengan desain non-randomized pretest-posttest control group design. Subjek yang dilibatkan dalam penelitian ini adalah perempuan yang beragama Islam dan menderita salah satu penyakit autoimun. Dalam penelitian ini tingkat stres subjek diukur menggunakan Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) subtes stres yang sudah diadaptasi ke dalam bahasa Indonesia. Pelaksanaan terapi mengacu pada modul membaca Al Fatihah reflektif-intuitif yang dikembangkan peneliti dan tim dengan merujuk pada modul Maulana, Subandi, dan Asturi. Analisis data menggunakan uji Mann Whitney U-Test untuk mengetahui perbedaan tingkat stres pada kelompok perlakuan di saat sebelum dan sesudah intervensi dibandingkan dengan kelompok kontrol. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terapi membaca Al Fatihah reflektif-intuitif dapat menurunkan tingkat stres pada pasien autoimun setelah melewati proses pemaknaan yang menghabiskan waktu tertentu.</em></p>

Reading-Based Therapy in Aphasia: Literature Review

Latar Belakang: Stroke menempati peringkat kedua penyebab kematian. Sekitar 21−38% pasien dengan stroke beresiko menderita afasia. Penderita afasia mengalami gangguan dalam kemampuan bahasa dan verbal dalam memenuhi kegiatan sehari-harinya.Tujuan: Mereview artikel penelitian dengan reading-based therapy pada pasien dengan afasia.Metode: Melakukan pencarian artikel dari PubMed, EBSCO, iMedPub dan TaylorFrancis dengan menggunakan istilah kunci dari bulan Januari 2013 sampai dengan Desember 2017. Hasil: Didapatkan 691 artikel dari hasil pencarian, 5 artikel yang sesuai dengan kriteria inklusi setelah artikel dibaca secara lengkap. Hasil meningkat pada kemampuan bahasa, pemahaman dalam membaca dan kognitif setelah intervensi diberikan ditunjukkan oleh masing-masing alat ukur.Kesimpulan: Reading-based therapy mampu memperbaiki gangguan bicara pada afasia, yang di dalamnya termasuk kemampuan bahasa, pemahaman membaca dan fungsi kognitif. Penulis menyakini, semakin lama jangka watu pemberian terapi ini, manfaat yang lebih signifikan akan didapatkan, karena tidak ada efek samping dari terapi membaca ini. Justru terapi ini juga akan menambah pengetahuan dan informasi dari yang dibaca. Kata kunci: Reading-based Therapy; Afasia; Kemampuan bahasa; Pemahaman membaca; Kognitif ABSTRACTBackground: Stroke is in the second rank causes of death. Approximately 21-38% of patients with stroke are at risk of suffering from aphasia. Aphasia patients have trouble in language and verbal ability in fulfilling their daily activities.Aims: To review research articles with reading-based therapy in patients with aphasia.Methods: Searched articles from four electronic databases at PubMed, EBSCO, iMedPub and Taylor Francis using key terms from January 2013 to December 2017. Outcome Results: Of 691 articles were identified, 5 articles were included in this study. Those studies used case study design included four quantitative studies and one qualitative study. Improvement results in language skills, comprehension in reading and cognitive after intervention is given have been shown by each measuring instrument.Conclusions: Reading-based therapy improved speech impairment in aphasia, which included language skills, reading comprehension and cognitive function. The authors believe, the longer duration of this therapy, more significant benefit will be obtained, because there are no side effects from this reading therapy. In addition this therapy will increase the knowledge and information from read. Keywords: Reading-based Therapy; Aphasia; Language Skill; Reading Comprehension; Cognitive

Technology-Enhanced Reading Therapy for People With Aphasia: Findings From a Quasirandomized Waitlist Controlled Study

Purpose This study investigated the effects of technology-enhanced reading therapy for people with reading impairments, using mainstream assistive reading technologies alongside reading strategies. Method The study used a quasirandomized waitlist controlled design. Twenty-one people with reading impairments following stroke were randomly assigned to receive 14 hr of therapy immediately or after a 6-week delay. During therapy, participants were trained to use assistive reading technology that offered a range of features to support reading comprehension. They developed skills in using the technology independently and in applying the technology to their personal reading goals. The primary outcome measure assessed reading comprehension, using Gray Oral Reading Test–Fourth Edition (GORT-4). Secondary measures were as follows: Reading Comprehension Battery for Aphasia–Second Edition, Reading Confidence and Emotions Questionnaire, Communication Activities of Daily Living–Second Edition, Visual Analog Mood Scales, and Assessment of Living With Aphasia. Matched texts were used with the GORT-4 to compare technology-assisted and unassisted reading comprehension. Mixed analyses of variance explored change between T1 and T2, when the immediate group had received therapy but the delayed group had not, thus serving as untreated controls. Pretherapy, posttherapy, and follow-up scores on the measures were also examined for all participants. Results GORT-4 results indicated that the immediately treated group improved significantly in technology-assisted reading following therapy, but not in unassisted reading. However, the data were not normally distributed, and secondary nonparametric analysis was not significant. The control group was unstable over the baseline, improving significantly in unassisted reading. The whole-group analysis showed significant gains in assisted (but not unassisted) reading after therapy that were maintained at follow-up. The Reading Confidence and Emotions Questionnaire results improved significantly following therapy, with good maintenance of change. Results on all other secondary measures were not significant. Conclusions Technology-assisted reading comprehension improved following the intervention, with treatment compensating for, rather than remediating, the reading impairment. Participants' confidence and emotions associated with reading also improved. Gains were achieved after 14 therapy sessions, using assistive technologies that are widely available and relatively affordable, meaning that this approach could be implemented in clinical practice.

A Research on Reading Therapy of Chinese University Students with Depression

This paper discusses the treatment of Chinese university students with depression by reading therapy, and provides theoretical and experimental basis for improving university students' depression. In this study, Beck Depression Inventory was used to measure the psychology of university students to discover depressed university students and evaluate the effect of reading therapy experiment. The researcher observed the effect of reading professional psychological books and general recreational books on university students' depression, and compared the two kinds of effects. Reading therapy has a significant effect on improving the psychological problems of Chinese university students with depression. General recreational reading is more effective in the treatment of university students depression than professional psychological reading.