Hypnocommunication on Sleep Disorders in Children with Cancer

Abstract

Background: Children diagnosed with cancer will experience various symptoms including fatigue (fatigue), pain,  nausea, vomiting, coughing, anorexia and one of them is sleep disturbance. The American Society of  Clinical Oncology shows that around 52% of cancer patients report difficulty sleeping. Sleep disorders  will cause drowsiness throughout the day, decreased immune system, less than optimal performance, and  decreased memory. Sleep disorders can cause a person to be unproductive, unfocused, unable to make  good decisions, forgetful, angry, depressed, causing the body to be vulnerable to disease.

Purpose: For this  reason, the aim of this study was to determine the effect of hypnocommunication on sleep disturbances in  children with cancer at Padang in 2023.

Methods: The type of this research was quasi-experiment with one group  pretest and posttest design. The population was 179 people. By using purposive sampling technique, 20  children with cancer at 6 to 12 years old had been chosen as the samples. They had been given for 20  minutes of therapy hypnocommunication given before going to bed once for 3 consecutive days. This  therapy uses a therapeutic communication method used by a therapist. The instrument used in this study  was the SDSC (Sleep Disturbances Scale for Children) questionnaire. The data were analyzed by  Wilcoxon Test. The results showed that the average score of sleep disturbance in children with cancer  before and after being given hypnocommunication was 40.0 and 37.9.

Results: The test results obtained a p-value  of 0.000 < (0.05 = Alpha). Last, it can be concluded that there was an effect of giving  hypnocommunication on sleep disturbances in children with cancer.

Conclusions: Therefore, it is suggested to the  officers at Cahaya Community Foundation, Padang to be able to utilize hypnocommunication  interventions as a technique for dealing with sleep disturbance problems in children with cancer.