THE EFFECT OF WARM COMPRESSES ON DYSMENORRHEA IN FEMALE STUDENTS AT SMK DARUL FIKRI SUMANDA TANGGAMUS REGENCY

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization, the average incidence of dysmenorrhea in young women is between 16.8-81%, in European countries, dysmenorrhea occurs in 45-97% of women. The prevalence of dysmenorrhea in Indonesia is 107,673 people (64.25%), consisting of 59,671 people (54.89%) experiencing primary dysmenorrhea and 9,496 people (9.36%) experiencing secondary dysmenorrhea. The impact of dysmenorrhea is pain that causes physical discomfort for a woman which can interfere with their activities. A warm compress is one method to reduce dysmenorrhea by using a bottle at a temperature of 40-46oC. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of warm compresses on dysmenorrhea in female students at SMK Darul Fikri Sumanda, Tanggamus Regency in 2022.

This type of research is a quantitative, quasi-experimental research design using a one-group pretest and posttest approach. The research has been carried out at SMK Darul Fikri Sumanda Tanggamus on November 10, 2021 - January 31, 2022. A sample of 42 female students with dysmenorrhea took the sample using total sampling. Compress is carried out with a comparison of 250CC cold water with 200CC hot water, a temperature of 40-46 °C is carried out for 20 minutes with an interval of 10 minutes changing hot water to maintain the temperature. Pain was assessed using a numerical rating scale with Wilcoxon test data analysis.

The results of the analysis showed that there was an effect of giving warm compresses to dysmenorrhea pain in the intervention group and the p-valiiue was 0.000 (<0.05). It is hoped that the results of this study can provide information and knowledge about efforts to treat dysmenorrhea with the warm compress method, then it can be applied when experiencing pain so as to reduce pain without using drugs.