PENGARUH LAMAZE EXERCISE TERHADAP SKALA NYERI MENSTRUASI (DYSMENORRHOEA) PADA REMAJA PUTRI DI SMA BUDI MULIA JAKARTA

Abstract

Menstrual pain present as cramps (ranging from mild to severe), which may disturb daily
activities. Lamaze exercise is non pharmacological method which use breathing
relaxation. This research was to analyze Lamaze exercise to reduction of menstrual pain.
This study used pra experimental pre post test design. The population was the students
with menstrual pain at Budi Mulia Senior High School Jakarta. The sampling technique
was purposive sampling. Thirty one students participated in this study. The independent
variable was Lamaze exercise and the dependent variable was menstrual pain.
Instrument which used to measure pain was Visual Analog Numeric Rating Scale. Data
were analyzed with Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test with significance α ≤ 0.005. The result
showed that Lamaze exercise decreasd menstrual pain. The result of statistical test
showed significance level p = 0.000 and the deviation between pre and post mean is
2.32, which means that there was decreasing menstrual pain in student in pre test and
post test. It can be concluded that Lamaze exercise can influence menstrual pain in
decrease respondent of the research. Lamaze exercise can provide a relaxing effect.
Further experiment with different respondent characteristic to obtain more wide range of
result.

Keywords: menstrual pain, Lamaze, relaxing effect, non pharmacological method