The Impact of Islamic Counseling Intervention towards Students’ Mindfulness and Anxiety during the COVID-19 Pandemic

The pandemic caused by the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) has had psychological and health impacts on people's lives around world. On a aspect, this anxiety due to low mindfulness. To increase potential of mindfulness, one ways taken is counselor intervention. authors used an Islamic counseling approach reduce Therefore, research was conducted using quasi-experimental design with non-equivalent control group design. Participants in study were 14 students consisting 7 for each experimental group. invited after filling self-report scale facing COVID-19 indicated that they high category. data analyzed Wilcoxon sign rank test determine impact before intervention given, then Mann Whitney find out mean differences between group, Rank Spearman correlation mindfulness anxiety. results showed effective which impacted reducing pandemic. Besides, analysis show there