Lowering Breast Pain Postpartum Cabbage (Brassica Var Capitata) and Aloe vera Compress

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Pain was the body’s way of telling us that something was wrong. Breast engorgement caused pain which affected the breastfeeding process. In the Kamonji Health Center area, there were 47 postpartum mothers who experienced breast pain AIM: The purpose of this study was to determine the difference in the effectiveness of giving cabbage compresses (brassica oleracea var capitata) with Aloe vera compresses to reduce breast swelling pain in postpartum mothers in the Kamonji Health Center area METHODS: This type of research was quasi-experimental with a two-group pretest–posttest design. The sampling technique was consecutive sampling with samples n1 = n 2 = 15 for each group of cabbage compresses and A. vera compresses. Data processing used the paired sample t-test. RESULTS: The results showed that the reduction of breast pain in postpartum mothers by giving cabbage compresses (brassica oleracea var capitata) was more effective than A. vera compresses with an average difference of 0.267. However, the second intervention has the same effectiveness in reducing breast pain in postpartum mothers, this can be assumed by the significant value of the second intervention is 0.000 p < 0.05 CONCLUSIONS: This study concluded that postpartum mothers who experienced breast swelling pain could apply cabbage compresses with A. vera compresses as a non-pharmacological therapy to reduce breast swelling.