Deep Breath Relaxation Training to Reduce Dysmenorrhoea Pain in Nursing Students, University of Muhammadiyah Gorontalo

Abstract

Dysmenorrhoea is one of the most common gynecological problems affecting more than 50% of women and causes an inability to perform daily activities for 1 to 3 days each month. One of the management of pain during menstruation is by relaxing deep breaths, namely by teaching clients how to do deep breaths and how to exhale slowly so as to reduce pain intensity and also increase lung ventilation and increase blood oxygenation. The purpose of this community service is to provide training to nursing students on deep breathing relaxation which can reduce menstrual pain (dysmenorrhoea). Deep breath relaxation training is carried out through the pretest stage, the training stage and the post test. There are 42 students who were given training in community service, namely nursing students from the 2016 and 2017 Muhammadiyah University of Gorontalo. The degree of dysmenorrhoea pain at the time of the pre test was mild pain 0% moderate pain as much as 81.0% and severe pain 19.0%. 9% and severe pain 19.0%. Based on the results of the training, it showed that most female students stated that this training was very useful because they gained knowledge and understanding of overcoming menstrual pain, after doing deep breathing relaxation students felt a decrease in dysmenorrhoea pain.

Efektivitas Terapi Akupresure dan Relaksasi Nafas Dalam Terhadap Penurunan Dismenorea Primer pada Remaja

“…Relaksasi nafas dalam memiliki beberapa manfaat yaitu dapat menurunkan nyeri, meningkatkan ventilasi paru, meningkatkan oksigenasi darah, menciptakan ketentraman hati, dan dapat mengurangi rasa cemas (ansietas). 10 Dalam penelitian Arini Purnama Sari & Arifah Usman (2021) telah membuktikan pada penelitiannya bahwa terapi akupresur efektif digunakan untuk menurunkan tingkat nyeri dismenorea pada siswi di SMA Nasional, dimana terdapat perbedaan rata-rata intensitas dismenorea sebelum dan setelah diberikan terapi akupresur yaitu 0,83 dengan p= 0,000. 11 Muhammad & Pipin (2021), ditemukan bahwa intensitas nyeri haid pada mahasiswi di Universitas Muhammadiyah Gorontalo mengalami penurunan sebesar 2,67, dimana sebelum diberikan terapi relaksasi nafas dalam rerata intensitas nyeri mencapai 5,86 dan setelah diberikan terapi relaksasi nafas dalam, rata-rata intensitas nyeri menjadi 3,19.…”

“…Sehingga dapat ditarik kesimpulan bahwa terapi relaksasi nafas dalam efektif digunakan untuk menurunkan intensitas disminorea. 10 Berdasarkan latar belakang diatas yang didukung dengan survey awal yang dilakukan oleh peneliti di SMPN 9 Selayar, jumlah remaja putri sebanyak 96 orang. Dari hasil wawancara yang dilakukan oleh peneliti terhadap 18 orang siswi SMPN 9 Selayar, mengaku mengalami dismenorea setiap kali menstruasi.…”