Penurunan Intensitas Nyeri Menstruasi (Dysmenorrhae) dengan Kompres Hangat

Abstract

Background: Dysmenorrhea is a pain that occurs during menstruation, caused by the contraction of the uterine muscles during menstrual bleeding which can last between 32-48 hours. This study aims to determine the decrease in pain intensity before and after giving warm compresses. Method; Type of study design is pre-experimental study design with one group pre-test and post-test design with a sample of 38 respondents. The independent variable in this study is warm compress on adolescent girls who have menstrual pain (dysmenorrhea), The dependent variable in this study is the reduction of menstrual pain (dysmenorrhea). The results found a decrease in the average pain scale before and after warm compress therapy and after Wilcoxon signed-rank test u, the results were obtained of p-value<0.001. It shows that warm compress therapy can be reducing dysmenorrhea. Conclusion; In conclusion administration of warm compresses are significantly reduces dysmenorrhea in adolescent girls and it is expected that teenagers can practice warm compresses as an effort to reduce dysmenorrhea.