TY - JOUR AU - Krisnanda, Moses A AU - Hasianna, Stella T AU - Limyati, Yenni PY - 2020/02/27 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Attention and Short-Term Memory Improvement in Young Adult Women with Anxiety After Coloring Therapy JF - Journal of Medicine and Health JA - J. Med. Health VL - 2 IS - 5 SE - Articles DO - 10.28932/jmh.v2i5.2030 UR - https://journal.maranatha.edu/index.php/jmh/article/view/2030 SP - AB - <p><em>Attention and memory are influenced by anxiety. This study aimed to analyze the effect of coloring therapy on the improvement of attention and short-term memory function in young adult women with anxiety. The analytic quasi-experimental method was used with pre-test and post-test design. The measured data were attention (Stroop test score) and short-term memory (Scenery Picture Memory Test</em> / <em>SPMT score). The subjects were 25 female university students with anxiety (Depression Anxiety Stress Scale / DASS-42 score ?8). This study showed the mean Stroop test scores of pre-test and post-test were 136.20 and 72.60 seconds subsequently, and the mean SPMT scores of pre-test and post-test were 17.88 and 20.92 subsequently. Wilcoxon's statistical analysis test with ?=0.05 showed a p-value of 0.000 for both the Stroop test and SPMT score (highly significant). We concluded that coloring therapy improved attention and short-term memory function in young adult women with anxiety.</em></p><p><em>&nbsp;</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em> coloring therapy, attention, short-term memory, cognitive, anxiety</em></p> ER -