ABSTRACT

Sarni Kurniati, 61112106, 2016. The Effectiveness of Warm Compress Against Menstrual Pain
Intensity towards Female Students who lived in Hostel of Universitas Batam Year 2015. Faculty
of Medicine, Universitas Batam

Background: Untreated pain during menstruation can caused discomfort that it interferes with
daily activities. More than 50% of women of any country experiencing menstrual pain, in the
United States about 60% and about 72% in Sweden. While in Indonesia the incidence of
menstrual pain ranges from 45-95% among women of childbearing age. One of ways in tackling
the menstrual pain is by giving a warm compress to relax muscle tension and provide a sense of
comfort that the pain will reduced and even relieved. The purpose of this study was to determine
the effect of warm compresses in decreasing menstrual pain intensity.

Methods: This method of research is pre-experiment, with one group pretest-posttest design. The
amount of population and sample in this research are 70 respondents of female students who
lived in Hostel of Universitas Batam Year 2015 with experiencing a menstrual pain. The
sampling method is total sampling. The results were analyzed with the distribution of the mean
or average then tested by the Wilcoxon signed rank test.

Results: Most of the respondents before it was given a warm compress feel pain in scale 4 with
an average of 4.87 and after being given a warm compress most of the respondents feel the
reducing of the pain with scale 2 with average of 2.37. Based on the analysis using Wilcoxon test
showed that the p-value of 0.000 ( <0.05), which means that warm compresses significantly
decreasing the intensity of menstrual pain.

Conclusion: Based on this study it can be concluded that there is a significant effect of giving a
warm compress to decrease the intensity of menstrual pain.

Keywords: Menstrual Pain, Warm Compress.