The Effect of Spiritual Prayer Guidance on Anxiety Levels in Pre-Operative Patients

Surgery is an invasive medical procedure. Before surgery, patients experience anxiety. If anxiety is not addressed, it can delay the operation by increasing blood pressure. One nursing intervention to prevent anxiety is through spiritual prayer guidance. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of spiritual prayer guidance on the level of anxiety in pre-operative patients. The research method used a quantitative research type, a pre-experimental research design (pre-test and post-test one group design). The sample of pre-operative patients at RSI Aisyiyah Malang in March-April 2025 amounted to 100 respondents. The instrument for measuring anxiety levels used the Amsterdam Pre-Operative Anxiety and Informational Scale questionnaire.The results showed that before the intervention, 7% of respondents experienced mild anxiety and 93% experienced moderate anxiety. After receiving the spiritual prayer mentoring intervention, 6% of respondents experienced no anxiety, 92% experienced mild anxiety, and 2% experienced moderate anxiety. The Wilcoxon test analysis showed a p-value (Sig. 2-tailed) of 0.000 (p <0.05), thus H0 was rejected and H1 was accepted. This means there was a significant difference in anxiety levels before and after the spiritual prayer mentoring treatment in preoperative patients at RSI Aisyiyah Malang. The conclusion of this study indicates that spiritual prayer mentoring is effective in reducing anxiety levels in preoperative patients. It is hoped that nurses, as educators, can implement spiritual prayer mentoring to address preoperative anxiety.