THE EFFECT OF BACK MASSAGE THERAPY ON THE INTENSITY OF DISMENOREA PAIN IN KARTIKA 1 - 5 PADANG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN 2019

Abstract

ABSTRACT

Dysmenorrhoea a pain in the pelvic region that occur before menstruation or during menstruation caused by hormonal imbalance. Menstrual pain can be overcome, namely non-pharmacological therapy back massage (back massage). In Indonesia the incidence of dysmenorrhoea by 64.25% consisted of 54.89% had primary dysmenorrhoea and 9.36% had secondary dismenora. The purpose of this research to know the influence of therapeutic back massage (back massage) against dysmenorrhea pain intensity at high school Kartika 1-5 Padang. This type of research is pre-experimental design one-group pretest-posttest design. This research was conducted in SMA Kartika 1-5 Padang and was executed on, April 25, 2019, the number of population in this study with a sample of 149 people 16 students were taken by purposive sampling. The collection of data by using a pain scale of measurement observation sheet. Data is processed in a computerized test bivariate analysis that the t test with significance level-dependentp value ≤0005. The results showed the average intensity of menstrual pain before being given a back massage therapy (back massage) 4:00 and after 1.63. There are significant therapeutic back massage (back massage) to (p value = 0.000) <0.005. It was concluded that there was influence therapeutic back massage (back massage) to the intensity of dysmenorrhea pain. It is expected that the patient always used back massage therapy (back massage) is useful for reducing the pain of dysmenorrhea.

Keyword : Keywords: Massage Therapy Spine (Back Massage), Pain Dismnorea