1Department of Midwifery, Polytehnic of Health Denpasar, Bali
2Department of Environmental Health, Faculty of Public Health, Hasanuddin University
*Corespondency: Ni Gusti Kompiang Sriasih E-mail: sriasihkespro@gmail.com
Online published on 21 September, 2018.
Labor is a physiological event, but midwifery care is required to avoid complications in the mother and fetus. Midwifery care is given during labor to reduce the incidence of perineum rupture. Primiparous are considered most at risk of spontaneous perineum rupture. Perineum rupture may result in bleeding.
The aim of this research is to know the influence of frangipani aromatherapy oil in the first stage of labor massage on maternal perineum condition.
Research type Quasi-Experimental Design with posttest control group design. The sample size was 80 people, divided into 2 treatment groups and 40 respondents respectively. Sampling technique used Consecutive sampling. Data is recorded on the observation sheet. Univariate and bivariate data analysis “Mann-Whitney”. The results showed perineum conditions in the treatment group mostly did not experience laceration perineum, while the control group most respondents suffered perineum injury level one. Mann-Whitney test result obtained 399.000 with value p = 0, 000, indicating there is the influence of aromatherapy frangipani in the first stage of labor massage to perineum condition at level of significance p <0, 05. The conclusion of research that there is the influence of aroma of frangipani therapy in the first stage of labor massage to perineum condition
Massage, aromatherapy, frangipani, first stage, labor
