Open AccessINTERVENSI EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (EFT) UNTUK MENGURANGI NYERI POST OPERASI SECTIO CAESARIA (SC)
Author(s) -
Lutfatul Latifah,
Dian Ramawati
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indonesian nursing journal of education and clinic (jurnal pendidikan dan praktik keperawatan indonesia)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2527-8819
pISSN - 2527-8800
DOI - 10.24990/injec.v1i1.52
Subject(s) - medicine , physical therapy , randomized controlled trial , rating scale , treatment and control groups , pain scale , breastfeeding , psychology , surgery , pediatrics , developmental psychology
Every woman who undergo Sectio Caesaria (SC) surgery for delivery their babies often complain about pain after the surgery and it become very distrubing. The effect of the pain cause mobilisation limitation, interrupting bonding attachment between mother and child, and postponning breastfeeding inititation. This study conduct EFT or tapping as the pain management in women post SC surgery.The aim of this study is to identify the effect of EFT or tapping for reducing pain after SC surgery. Methods: Quasy experimental with pre-post non randomized control group design was used in this study. The data been colleted using Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) to measure the pain in participants before and after EFT or tapping treatment. The number of participants was 30 mothers with 15 women in control and treatment group respectively. The t-test was used to analize the effect of the EFT. Results: The mean of pain scale before treatment in control group was 5.20 dan 6.20 for the treatment group. The pain scale after treatment in control group was 5.00 and 4.27 in treatment group. There was a significant difference between the reducing pain scale in treatment group with p value = 0,000 (α = 0.05). Discussion: EFT or tapping can be one of many non farmacologic treatment as complementer therapy to reduce pain after SC surgery. Keywords: post SC pain, EFT, pain scale decline, non farmacologic therapy