EFEKTIVITAS RELAKSASI AUTOGENIK TERHADAP DYSMENORRHEA
Abstract: Dysmenorrhea is an
excessive pain during menstruation caused by uncoordinated uterine contrauctions.
There were some pain managements for dysmenorrhea, one of them was autogenic relaxation.
This study aims to determine the effectiveness autogenic relaxation against the
intensity of dysmenorrhea. The research design used in this study was “pre-
experiment” with “one group pretest-postest” only. The sample in this research
were the VII grade students of Junior High School 3 Pekanbaru, the total sample
were 17 experiment respondendents who taken by using accidental sampling
techniques. The measuring instrument used was observation sheets. The analysis
were univariate and bivariate analysis by using Wilcoxon tests. The result
showed significant reduction of intensity dysmenorrhea on experimental group
after the group has given the relaktation autogenic with p value (0,000) < ά
(0,05). It means autogenic relaxation was effective to mreduce the intensity of
dysmenorrhea. The result of this study is expected to be an alternative to handling
the dysmenorrhea for young women.
Keyword: Autogenic relaxation,
dysmenorrhea, menstruation
Penulis: Nurteti Putri Dewi,
Sri Utami, Sofiana Sofiana
Kode Jurnal: jpkeperawatandd180087
