Effectivity of Essential Oil Diffuser Blend Aromatherapy for Decrease Morning Sickness in The First Trimester of Pregnancy in Wonokromo Surabaya

Generally, (64%) pregnant’s women in the first trimester feel like nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite (morning sickness). This is occurring because of increased levels of estrogen and hCG hormone (Human Chorionic Gonadotropin). If this situation is not resolved immediately, it will be mother’s nutritional intake is not fulfilled and it will interfere the development of the fetal organs. Aromatherapy, sometimes can provide a relaxing effect and increasing the function of the digestive organs. This research aim was to determine the provision of inhalation aromatherapy using a diffuser (Essential Oil Diffuser Blend Aromatherapy) for decrease morning sickness in the first trimester of pregnancy in the area of Wonokromo, Surabaya. The design of this research is the Quasy experimental (pre-posttest control group design). The sample of pregnant’s women are having a morning sickness in Wonokromo area was taken using the Simple Random Sampling technique of 60 people and then it will be divided into control and treatment groups. The treatment group will be given aromatherapy for 30 minutes based on the SOP. For the morning sickness variable instrument using PUQE (Pregnancy Unique Quantification of Emesis and or Nausea Scoring System). Data analysis using the Wilcoxon test with a significance level of α = 0.05 The result for the treatment group before given the aromatherapy were 26,7% with mild degrees, 40% moderate degrees, and 33% severe degrees. After given the aromatherapy, most of them had decreased to 6.7% severe degrees, 13.3% moderate degrees, 60% mild degrees, even of 20% still felt the discomfort. The results of the Wilcoxon sign rank test obtained the value of ρ = 0.001, so that means there is an effect of giving Aromatherapy Essential Oil Diffuser Blend with the degree of morning sickness in the first trimester of pregnancy. Giving of Aromatherapy Blend Essential Oil Diffuser is effective to decrease of morning sickness in the first trimester of pregnancy. For health worker, this technique can be one of the practical options for non-pharmacological therapy to decrease the discomfort of morning sickness which is and it can be done independently by pregnant women