Abstract

ABSTRACT
 
 The incidence of dysmenorrhea in the world is very large, at least 45-90% of women experience dysmenorrhea during the reproductive years. Several self-care measures can be taken for the management of menstrual pain. One of the non-pharmacological methods to reduce pain intensity can be done by using effleurage massage and lavender aromatherapy.
 This study aims to find out the effect of massage effleurage combination of lavender aromatherapy on the intensity of dysmenorrhea pain in adolescent women in the working area of Pabelan Health Center.
 The research method used is quantitative using a quasi-experimental approach. The sampling technique used non-probability sampling/non-random, the number of samples was 28 people according to the specified criteria. Massage effleurage combined with lavender aromatherapy for 10 minutes. The act of giving 3 drops of lavender aromatherapy into 40 ml of water through a diffuser that will be turned on during massage effleurage therapy
 The result of this study was that there was a difference in disminore pain in adolescent women before and after the intervention of Massage Effleurage therapy combined with lavender aromatherapy in the working area of Pabelan Health Center of Semarang Regency (P-value = 0.000).
 
 Keywords: Dysmenorrhea, Lavender Aromatherapy, Massage Effleurage,

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