PENGARUH PENGGUNAAN APLIKASI SPIRITUAL GO-SOUL (GUARDIAN OF YOUR SOUL) BERBASIS ANDROID TERHADAP TINGKAT DEPRESI REMAJA SMP MUHAMMADIYAH KASIHAN

Background: Adolescence is a transition from childhood to adulthood where
there is a process of mental and emotional maturity. A teenager will experience
the upheaval of conflict and changes in mood coupled with existing pressures so
that it can bring a teenager easily become depressed. Depression in adolescents
can lead to suicide, so it requires proper prevention. One therapy that was being
targeted by people today was spiritual therapy, from the perspective of Islam
spiritual therapy can be obtained from recitation of Quran therapy and it would
be packaged in the form of an android-based application so that it was more
easily accessed by teenagers. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect
of android-based spiritual applications Go-Soul on the adolescent depression
level at SMP Muhammadiyah Kasihan.
Research Methods: The design of this research was quasi experiment with
control group, pre-test and post-test design by giving android-based spiritual
application Go-Soul (Guardian of Your Soul) intervention which contained audiovisual of Al-Qur'an verses and the translations. The sample were 50 students in
grade 7 SMP Muhammadiyah Kasihan with 25 respondents in the intervention
group and 25 respondents in the control group. Data analysis used by the
researcher were univariate analysis data to see the percentage and frequency
distribution, and bivariate analysis data to connect the control group and the
intervention group.
Results: The results obtained from the Wilcoxon test in intervention group at pretest and post-test was p = 0.001 or p <0.05, which means there was a significant
difference on depression levels in the intervention group.
Conclusion: There was an effect of Android-based spiritual application (Go-Soul)
on adolescent depression levels of SMP Muhammadiyah Kasihan