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The Impact of Aroma Therapy Variation on Reducing Pain and Anxiety Levels of Maternity Women

DOI : https://doi.org/10.36349/easjnm.2019.v01i06.005
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The level of labor pain is illustrated by the intensity of pain that is perceived by maternity women during labor. While Anxiety is a natural disorder or feeling that is marked by fear or anxiety that is deep and ongoing. Prenatal depression and anxiety often occur in maternal birth. One of the efforts made to overcome labor pain and reduce the level of anxiety is a non-pharmacological method. Aroma therapy of lavender (lavandula angustifiola) and pepper mint (mentha piperita) become options for non pharmacological method. This study aims at investigating the impact of aroma therapy lavender and pepper mint in reducing labor pain and anxiety levels of maternity women in mother and child hospital of Siti Khadijah located in Kota Gorontalo. It uses a quasy-experimental design with non-equivalent control group administered by pre and post test. The populations are the total number of maternity women classified by inclusion and exclusion criteria. The samples are taken by using non-probability sampling method. Based on the result of the statistical computation using T-test, the result shows that there is not any significant effect of lavender and peppermint aroma therapy on reducing labor pain. The result of T-test is 2.042 and p value is 0.05, while for peppermint aroma therapy the result of T-test is 000 and p value is 0.1000. These results show that p value is higher than α 0.05. However, there is significant effect of lavender and peppermint aroma therapy on reducing anxiety level. The result of T-test is 6.056 and p value 0.000, while for peppermint aroma therapy the result of T-test is 14.4738 and p value is 0.000. This shows that p value is lower than α 0.05. Thus, it concludes that in term of reducing pain lavender and peppermint do not contribute significant effect but they are significantly effective in reducing anxiety level during labor.

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