PENGARUH PERMAINAN CATUR TERHADAP PENINGKATAN KOGNITIF LANSIA DI KELURAHAN BUNULREJO KOTA MALANG

Background: Those aged 60 years and over can be called elderly because at that
age they experience changes in physical, psychological, health, motor skills,
interests, mental abilities, environment and social status due to slow cell growth
and decreased brain function. The game of chess is a brain teaser where players
use movements and cognitive skills to develop strategies to win the match.
Playing chess can help improve focus, memory and sensitivity in a step-by-step
manner, which can be applied in everyday life. Playing chess can indirectly
activate the brain in three dimensions, namely laterality-communication,
focusing-understanding and focusing-organization.
Purpose: To determine the effect of playing chess on cognitive improvement in
the elderly in Bunulrejo Village, Malang City.
Methods: This research uses a pre-experimental method with a one group
pretest-posttest design, the population and sample of this research are elderly
people who have cognitive disorders in Bunulrejo Village, Malang City. This
research was carried out by playing chess with the elderly in Bunulrejo Village,
Malang City for 1 month 4 times a week with 3 chess game sessions. Data
collection used the MMSE questionnaire with the pretest-posttest method and
continued processing the data using the paired t test data analysis test via the
SPSS application.
Results: Based on the test results using the paired t-test, a significant result was
obtained, p = <0.01, where p<0.05, which means that Hо is rejected and H1 is
accepted, so that there is a significant influence of the game of chess on cognitive
improvement in the elderly in Bunulrejo Village, Malang City.
Conclusion: There is an influence between the game of chess and cognitive
improvement in the elderly in Bunulrejo Village, Malang City.