THE EFFECTS OF CUPPING THERAPY ON LEVEL OF DYSMENORRHEA IN ADOLESCENT IN RW. 06 WONOAYU GEMPOL PASURUAN

Abstract

Dysmenorrhea is one of the gynecological problems that interfere with daily life and the most common problems experienced by women, especially adolescent. Purpose of this study was to determine the effect of cupping therapy on the level of dysmenorrhea in adolescent in RW. 06 Wonoayu Gempol Pasuruan. This research design is pre-experimental with design one-group pre-post design and adolescent population in the village RW. 06 Wonoayu Gempol Pasuruan with dysmenorrhea as much as 17 adolescents. And a large sample of 16 adolescents were taken as the samples by using probability sampling with using simple random sampling technique. The data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon signed rank test . The results of research showed that before cupping therapy (pre-test) the majority of respondents (68.7%) stated rate of severe dysmenorrhea (7-9) and after cupping therapy (Posttest ) half of the respondents (50.0%) stated rate of dysmenorrhea is no pain (0). After the Wilcoxon signed rank test in get ρ value is 0.001 and the value of α = 0.05. The conclusion from this study that the cupping therapy can reduce the rate of adolescents dysmenorrhea in RW. 06 Wonoayu Gempol Pasuruan. In order to improve the quality of nursing care that is done independently to provide nursing interventions especially dysmenorrhea management. Nurses should be complementary techniques by means of nonpharmacological pain reduction such as cupping therapy