Perbedaan Efektifitas Kompres Hangat pada Area Lumbal dan Abdominal Terhadap Dismenorhea Mahasiswi Fakultas Ilmu-Ilmu Kesehatan Universitas Jenderal Soedirman Purwokerto

Background: Dysmenorrhea mostly occur among adolescence and causes of discomfort during daily activity. It can be handled by warm compress. The uterus is innervated by L1-S4 stimulation in lumbar region and it can stimulate nerves desenden. It causes block impulse pain, and produce analgesic physiological. The aim of this study was to eximine the differences of effectiveness warm compress lumbar and abdominal region toward dysmenorrhea. Method: The design of this study was used quasy experimental pretest and posttest with control group. The population of active Unsoed students was 1.670. The total sample was 36 respondents, and it was divided into lumbar and abdominal region. Sampling technique used accidental sampling. Numerical Rating Scale was used as instrumental quistionare. The data were analyzed by Wilcoxon, Mann-Whitney, and Independent-Samples t-test. Result: The mean scores of age for each group was 20,86 years and menarche’s was 12,25 years, the blood systole pressure was 101,67 and 60.83 was the diastole pressure, the pulse was 78,28, RR was 17,44. There was a significant decreases of pain for lumbar and abdominal region toward dysmenorrhea with p=0,000. There was no differences score of pretest between lumbar and abdominal region with p=0,517. There was no differences effectiveness of posttest score between lumbar and abdominal region with p=0,251. Conclusion: There was no difference effectiveness of warm compress between lumbar and abdominal region against dysmenorrhea