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to-skin contact, and baby pacifiers. babies. The sample size in this study was 36.
(Marsaoly, 2018) The variable in this study was the quality of
Solutions to reduce insomnia in infant sleep. The measurement of the baby's
infants include talking to doctors, sleep quality is done by using a
counseling on how to deal with insomnia, questionnaire. The research was carried out
and asking parents to massage their babies. from July 7 – August 29, 2021, at PMB Lilis
Baby massage is one of the crucial Suryawati, Jombang Regency. The data
approaches to increasing intimacy between collection process was carried out by giving
mother and baby (Wungouw, 2017) a questionnaire to the mother of the baby
Given the importance of sleep in whose baby was massaged regularly at the
your baby's development, you need to research site. After that, the data obtained
ensure that your sleep needs are fully met are presented in the form of a frequency
so that your baby's growth and distribution table. The research obtained
development are not hampered. One way to ethical clearance from STIKES Karya
meet these needs is massage. Babies who HUsada Pare with No.
receive massage can more easily wake up 450/EC/LPPM/STIKES/KH/VIII/2021.
and sleep (Sari, 2014). The increase in the
amount and length of sleep in massaged Results
infants is due to the increased secretion of
serotonin produced during the massage, Table 1 Frequency Distribution of Respondents'
Characteristics by Age
which is the primary neurotransmitter in
establishing sleep by inhibiting system No Age Total Percentage
activity and other brain activities. (%)
Serotonin, synthesized from the amino acid 1 3 Months 8 22.2
tryptophan, is converted to 5- 2 4 Months 9 25
hydroxytryptophan (5HTP), N- 3 5 Months 15 41.7
acetylserotonin, and melatonin. Melatonin 4 6 Months 4 11.1
plays a role in sleep, making night sleep Total 36 100
longer and more profound (Pramita et al.,
2021) because less light entering the eyes Based on table 1 shows that of the 36
produces more melatonin in the dark. In respondents, almost half of the respondents
addition, due to parents' lack of information were five months old, and as many as 15
and knowledge about massage due to social respondents (41.7%).
conditions, many parents believe that
massage is not a scientific and unnatural Table .2 Frequency Distribution of Characteristics of
Respondents Based on Gender
treatment for babies. Most mothers believe
that massage is only necessary when their No Gender Total Percentage
child has a cold or gas and publicize proper (%)
baby massage techniques (Agustin et al., 1 Male 15 41.7
2020) 2 Female 21 58.3
This research uses the descriptive Table 2 shows that most of the 36
research method. The population studied respondents with female sex as many as 21
were all infants aged 3-6 months in PMB respondents (58.3%).
Lilis Suryawati, Jombang Regency, with 54
children who were massaged for 2x15 quality of their baby's sleep so that growth
minutes every week for four weeks slept and development can be maximized.
more soundly so that when they woke up, Through baby massage, where touch
their concentration was better. Better than is accompanied by gentle pressure on the
before the massage. (Rahayu & baby, the nerve endings on the surface of the
Askabulaikhah, 2020). skin react to touch. Furthermore, these
. Based on the results of research nerves send messages to the brain through
conducted by Rosidi and Purnamasari a network of nerves in the spinal cord. This
(2021), this study aims to determine the process can cause stimulation of peripheral
effect of massage on infants with sleep sensory nerve receptors, primarily pressure
quality for infants aged 0-6 months at receptors. This stimulation activates the
Kartasura Health Center. This research parasympathetic nervous system.
method is analytic using case control. Stimulation of the parasympathetic nervous
Collecting data using a questionnaire sheet, system that is primarily involved in the
while data analysis using the Chi-Square process of sleep in several areas of the
test. The Chi-Square test results obtained a parasympathetic autonomic nervous system,
value of 2 counts of 20,417 (p-value = 0.001) the raphe nuclei and nucleus tractus
and the Odd ratio (OR) value of the test of solitarius, which are sensory regions of the
15.00. The study concludes that baby medulla and pons through which visceral
massage affects the sleep quality of infants sensory signals enter the brain via the vagus
aged 0-6 months, where babies who get and glossopharyngeal nerves, as well as
baby massage have a 15 times higher induce sleep. (Rahayu & Sagita, 2019).
chance of having good sleep quality than
babies who do not. Conclusions
Based on the results of research
conducted by (Ferius et al., 2016), this study The results showed that most of the
aimed to determine the effectiveness of respondents had good sleep quality. Good
infant massage on the sleep quality of quality sleep will affect the growth and
infants aged 3-6 months. The research development of the baby, who is getting
design used was a pretest, posttest one- better
group design. The population is all mothers
of infants and infants aged 3-6 months, with Authors Contributions
a total sample of 21 infants. The instrument
used is an observation sheet. The results The author carries out tasks from
were then analyzed using the Wilcoxon with data collection, data analysis, making
an alpha of 0.05. The results showed that discussions to making manuscripts
71.4% of infants had good sleep quality, and
as many as seven infants (33.3%) had
Conflicts of Interest
improved sleep quality. Wilcoxon test
There is no conflict of interest
obtained p value = 0.034 where p-value <
(0.05) means H0 is rejected, and H1 is
accepted, meaning that there is an effect of Acknowledgment
the effectiveness of baby massage on the
sleep quality of babies aged 3-6 months. The Thank you to the respondents and to
study's results can be used as those who have helped in this research
recommendations for mothers to use baby
massage as an alternative to improving the
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