Effectiveness of Jacobson’s Relaxation Technique on Dysmenorrhea among the Adolescent Girls

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Dysmenorrhea is painful menstruation of sufficient magnitude so as to incapacitate day to day activities which is manifested by cramping pain on the ovulatory cycles along with nausea, vomiting, fatigue and fainting. It affects 17% - 80% in global level. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of Jacobson’s relaxation technique on dysmenorrhea among school going adolescent girls in selected schools at Madurai. METHODOLOGY: Assessment of pain was done by Visual Analogue Scale. Jacobson’s relaxation technique was given for 30 minutes twice a day on the day of menstruation. DESIGN: Quasi- experimental non equivalent pre-test and post-test control group design was used. SETTINGS: The students studying in IXth standard of two sections were selected 30 in experimental group and 30 in control group from CSI Girls Higher Secondary School at Madurai. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS : Analysis was done by using Percentage, Chi square test. RESULT : The mean post test dysmenorrhea score 4.33 of the experimental group was lower than the mean post test dysmenorrhea score 7.5 of the control group with a ‘t’ value of 9.52 . There was significant reduction in post test level of dysmenorrhea score, in the experimental group compared to the control group, (MD- 3.17 P