THE EFFECTIVENESS OF LAVENDER AROMATHERAPY IN REDUCING PAIN INTENSITY OF PATIENTS WITH BREAST CANCER IN RB2 RSUP HAJI ADAM MALIK MEDAN 2014

Authors

  • Nurlama Siregar Lecturers of Nursing Department of Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes Medan
  • Masnila Masnila Lecturers of Nursing Department of Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes Medan
  • Marlisa Narlisa Lecturers of Nursing Department of Politeknik Kesehatan Kemenkes Medan

Keywords:

lavender aromatherapy, reducing pain, breast cancer

Abstract

Aromatherapy defines as a method to cure a disease by using fragrance which is come from
the oil of floral essential, commonly the fragrance smell good, aromatic and relaxing, it commonly
calls essential oil. Almost all of breast cancer patients feel pain.
Pain is unpleasant sensory perception. Aromatherapy is one of non pharmacological methods
to reduce pain.
This study was conducted by a pretest-posttest design, a pretest applied priory before
applying an intervention. After applied an intervention, a posttest was conducted. It had 27 samples.
The data was taken from medial record and observation sheet.
The findings showed that before applied lavender aromatherapy, there are 22 respondents
(81,5%) who had severe pain intensity and after applied the lavender aromatherapy, mostly 24
respondents (88,9%) had mild pain. The statistic test result that there was a significant reducing in
pain intensity with value p =0,00 and mean 0,851.

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Published

2019-07-15

Issue

2015: Oral : Challenges, Strategy and Jealth Treatment Approach to Nutrition and Molecular Epidemiology.

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