Pengaruh Swedish Massage Terhadap Tingkat Nyeri Haid (Dismenoreaa) Primer

Menstrual pain or dysmenorrhea is experienced by many adolescents due to myometrial contractions and has an impact on various aspects of life such as vomiting and nausea (feeling of vomiting and nausea), emotions, dizziness, diarrhea, headaches, fainting and fatigue. Research Objectives: To find out the effect of Swedish massage on pain levels in primary dysmenorrhea, students of health midwifery at the Institute of Health Sciences in Kediri City. Research Design: The research design used a pre-experimental design using a two-group pretest-posttest design with a control group design. The sampling technique chosen was a purposive sampling technique according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria obtained by 54 respondents with a total of 27 respondents in each group. The results of the study in the treatment group were found in the mild category of 19 respondents (70.4%). The results of the bivariate statistical test using Wilcoxon showed a p value = 0.000 so that the p value <α, (α = 0.05) so H0 was rejected, meaning that it can be concluded that there is an effect of Swedish massage on the level of dysmenorrhea in midwifery female students. Suggestion: For future researchers to be able to provide intervention for more than 3 days, so that the results obtained are in accordance with the goals to be achieved.