Abstract: The most common disease of neuromuscular transmission, myasthenia gravis (MG), is an antibody-mediated muscle disease in which any skeletal muscle can be affected. MG may produce numerous symptoms and signs. Symptoms of MG include drooping of the eyelids (ptosis); blurred or double vision (diplopia), weakness in the neck, and from arms and legs to the extremities, change in facial expression, difficulty in swallowing; shortness of breath; and impaired speech. (Donald Sanders, MD). MG patients were anxious physically, emotionally and psychologically. Hopelessness, depression, anxiety, paranoid, pessimistic is still evident in the following factors: a negative view of self, a negative view of the world and a negative view of the future. This is how the MG regard life-negatively. It undermines the patient’s ability to cope with everyday activities, difficult solutions and financial constraint. It leads to isolation and lack of clear perception of the purpose of one’s existence. This research utilized logotherapy as an intervention on MG respondents. Frankl’s assumption that life is meaningful under circumstances, people has the will to meaning and freedom of the will to activate it (Frankl, !984). The Within Group design is the method used in this experimental study. There were 15 respondents. This experimental design used the Purpose in Life (PIL) and Life Regards Index (LRI) test. All the respondents were given the logotherapy, quest for meaning and purpose in life. The test revealed that the experimental group, after subjected to logotherapy increased their score of PIL 120 and LRI 11O, which indicated as there is the presence of definite meaning and purpose in life. Significant difference between the pretest and the posttest of the same group with Life Regard Index (p=0.00, d=9.2), with Purpose in Life (p=0.00, d=7.5). Logotherapy, quest for meaning and purpose in life, is an effective intervention addressing the suffering (hopelessness, meaninglessness, regarding life negatively) in patients suffering from Myasthenia Gravis.
Keywords: neuromuscular transmission, myasthenia gravis (MG), Logotherapy.
Title: Logotherapy on the Negative Life Regard among Myasthenia Gravis
Author: Judy L. Aguinaldo, Rosalito de Guzman
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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