Massage Effect of Pressure on Speed Counter Opening on Stage I Labor Primigravidae

Abstract

Background
Pain during childbirth is one factor that led to the mother felt that childbirth is painful and frightening events. Non-pharmacological techniques that can reduce pain and speed up the opening of the delivery of which is counter pressure massage.
Purpose
To determine the effect of massage counter pressure against the opening speed in the first stage of labor primigravidae.
Method
Experiment with Quasi experimental design with pretest-posttest design with control group design. Samples were taken from the mother inpartu the active phase of the first stage with the opening of 4cm. These samples included 42 respondents with purposive sampling technique. Analysis of the data using Mann Whitney and Wilcoxon signed rank.
Research Result
Showed no effect of massage counter pressure against the opening rate (p = 0.000), Provision of counter pressure massage can speed up the opening of the labor primigravidae.
Conclusion
Provision of counter pressure massage can speed up the opening of the labor primigravidae