THE INFLUENCE OF ENDORPHIN MASSAGE TOWARDS THE LABORING IMPROVEMENT ON PRIMPAROUS MOTHER AT MS. ANNA PRIVATE MIDWIFE PRACTICE IN BANDUNG REGENCY

Abstract

Laboring is a physiological occurrence experienced by a woman. Laboring that can not be handled properly can leadprolong labor. Factors that affect it is because of maternal discomfort during laboring which can be caused by pain affect the increase in body glucose consumption in maternal so that mothers can experience fatigue and catecholamine secretion that impact on uterine contractions. Abnormal contractions can cause the occurrence prolonged in labor. Prolong labor can cause intrapartum infections, uterine rupture, pathologic retraction rings until maternal and infant deaths. One of the efforts to improve uterine contractions is by endorphin massage. The purpose of this study is to determine.The influence of endorphin massage towards the laboring improvement on primiparous mother. The research design used was Quasi Experiment with "Posttest-Only Control Design" divided into 2 groups, 16 respondents who were not given massage treatment and 16 respondents who were treated massages whereas progress of labor was assessed using patographic observation sheet, the data were analyzed using Test T Dependent. The results of the analysis showed that for the group that did not give endorphin massage had an average of 2 hours and 11 minutes of labor and the group who getendorphin massage had an average of 7 hours 26 minutes. Its means that there is an influence of endorphin massage towards the laboring improvement on primiparous mother with P <0,000. It is expected that endorphin massage can be used as an alternative method in providing maternal care to maternal that have an impact on laboring improvement