Pengaruh Pemberian Birth Massage terhadap Penurunan Intensitas Nyeri Persalinan Kala I Fase Aktif

Abstract

Childbirth is a highly anticipated moment of pregnant women to be able feel the happiness coveted. However, labor is often overwhelmed by fear and anxiety to pain during childbirth. Birth massage is one of technique to reduce pain labor. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of birth massage to reduce pain labor in fi rst stage active phase. The design used in this study using pre-experimental design using pretest–post test design. The population is all labor mother in the active phase of the fi rst stage in BPM Nuril Masrukha Candi Sidoarjo on 24 November 2016–24 January 2017 met the inclusion criteria. The total sample of 33 labor mother. Data were analyzed using Paired Sample T Test with error level α = 0.05. The results showed a mean score of labor pain before giving birth massage is 7.24 ± 0.87 and the mean score of labor pain after giving birth massage is 4.94 ± 0.75. From statistic test p value = 0.000 so that can made conclusion birth massage can reduce fi rst stage pain labor in active phase.