School Of Nursing

Faculty of Pharmacy & Health Sciences

University of Sari Mutiara Indonesia

Thesis, Juli 2019

Romintan Sitanggang
The Effect of Cognitive Therapy on Self-Esteem Changes in Patients with Low
Self-Esteem at Prof. Dr. M. Ildrem of Mental Hospital Medan 2019.
xiii + 55pages + 6tables + 2 chart + 17 enclosures

ABSTRACT
An individual's personal assessment of the results achieved by analyzing how far his behavior in
fulfilling his ideal’s self-esteem. Low self-esteem is an individual's assessment of personal
originating from the individual's own assessment or from outside the individual obtained by
analyzing behavior with an ideal esteem, in the form of negative feelings toward the ability of the
individual itself, in overcoming the problems of patients with low self-esteem can be given one of
some therapies. One of the therapy called Cognitive therapy. This study aims to determine the
effect of cognitive therapy on changes self-esteem in patients with low self-esteem at Prof Dr. M.
Ildrem Mental of Hospital. Design used in this study was Quasi-experimental one group pre-test-
post test. The population in this study were all patients with low self-esteem was 47 people, with a
total sample of 22 respondents with a purposive technique sampling. The results of this study
indicate a significant effect of cognitive therapy on self-esteem in patients with low self-esteem (p
value = 0,000). This research is expected that patients can handle negative thoughts that often arise
by using cognitive therapy independently and can make cognitive therapy as one of the nurses'
independent interventions in providing nursing care to patients with low self-esteem, as well as
additional references in subsequent studies related to cognitive therapy in low self-esteem patients.

Keywords: Cognitive Therapy, Self-Esteem, Low Self-Esteem

References: 41 (2005-2018)