The Effectiveness of Massage to Increase the Work Productivity of Persons With Disabilities

Abstract

The development of human resources starts from the womb even earlier by paying attention to the level of welfare of expectant mothers, then babies, toddlers, preschool and school age, youth, productive age to old age. The research aims to test and find out the effectiveness of this type of health massage in increasing work productivity which consists of motivation, knowledge, skills, attitudes and independence for people with disabilities with physical disabilities. This study used a quasi-experimental research method with a one group time series design (pretest one post test). The design carried out the first observation (pretest) after that the posttest observation. The treatment group was measured by giving a type of massage therapy to the work productivity of the disabled with physical disabilities which would be known to consist of five (5) influencing factors, namely: (1) motivation, (2) knowledge, (3) skills, (4) attitudes and ( 5) independence. The research sample was taken from the existing population using a non-random sampling technique with a purposive sampling method. Data collection is obtained through tests and measurements. The test instrument used to measure work productivity uses a questionnaire. The data analysis technique used is analysis of variance. The research results show that there is a significant difference between the initial variable and the final variable with a significance value (2-tailed) <0.05 through paired t-test. Meanwhile, through the ANOVA test results obtained a significance of 0.267. So that it can be interpreted that there is a significant influence on the treatment given with health massage on work productivity variables consisting of motivation, knowledge, skills, attitudes and independence for people with disabilities with physical disabilities. The increase in work productivity that has experienced the greatest or most effective increase is in the motivational variable with a percentage increase of 16.75%.