The Effect of Lavender and Rose Aromatherapy on the Intensity of Active Phase Childbirth Pain in the Manyak Payed Community Health Center, Aceh Tamiang Regency, Indonesia

BACKGROUND: Most postpartum mothers experience pain. Childbirth pain can cause anxiety, fear, tension, and stress. To increase comfort and reduce pain in maternity can be done using non-pharmacological methods by giving aromatherapy. AIM: The aim of the study was to analyze the effect of lavender and rose flower aromatherapy on the intensity of active phase childbirth pain in pregnant women in Manyak Payed Community Health Center, Aceh Tamiang Regency, Indonesia METHODS: A quasi-experimental design with a prospective cohort study with post-test control group design, which was conducted in the Manyak Payed Community Health Center working area from September to December 2019. A total of 54 women giving birth using accidental sampling techniques were selected as samples and divided into three groups. Each group numbered 18 people. In this sample using inclusion and exclusion criteria, data analysis uses univariable and bivariable using Kruskal–Wallis H test and Mann–Whitney test. RESULTS: The results obtained mean childbirth pain in the lavender group by 18.83, rose flower group by 26.21, and the control group by 37.06. The results of the crucial Willis H test show that there are differences ineffectiveness in the control group and the treatment group with the Sig. 0.001 (<0.05). In further tests of the post hoc test using the Mann–Whitney test, it was found that there was no difference in the effectiveness of the intensity of labor pain in the active phase I with a sig. 0.90 (p > 0.05). Lavender and rose flower groups were equally effective in the intensity of childbirth pain. CONCLUSION: There is a difference between lavender and rose flower aromatherapy on the intensity of pain in the association. Lavender and rose flower aromatherapy treatments are equally influential on the intensity of labor pain in the first phase of the active phase in labor. Lavender and rose flower groups were equally effective in the intensity of childbirth pain