PENGARUH PEMBERIAN KUNYIT ASAM TERHADAP PENURUNAN TINGKAT NYERI DISMINORE PADA REMAJA PUTRI USIA 12-17 TAHUN

Abstract

Adolescent girls who have entered puberty will experience menstruation or the process of decay of the endometrial tissue with blood. Before menstruation occurs first the Pre Menstrual Syndrome (PMS) process which is characterized by headaches, hardened breasts, mood swings (Mood Swing) after the menstrual process in which menstrual pain occurs or Disminore is a response from the body due to the release of excess prostaglandin hormone, resulting in increased uterine contractions resulting in menstrual pain. Disminore travel is estimated as much as 40-50% of adolescent girls experience disminore, the impact that occurs in adolescent girls become lazy to study until not going to school because of severe pain. The purpose of this study is to prove the effect of giving turmeric acid to reduce the level of disminore pain in adolescent girls aged 12-17 years based on empirical studies in the last five years. The research design used was Study Literature with the Review method which is 5 Indonesian journals and 5 International Journals taken from several databases namely Google Schoolar, PubMed, ProQuest, Microsoft Academia, and Scient Direct from 2015 and above. Most of the results of the analysis test that is P value = 0,000 <α = 0.05 means that in the study showed the influence of turmeric acid on decreasing the level of pain in disminore in young women. There is a decrease in pain scale in adolescents whose pain measurement uses Numeric Rating Scale, it is expected that young women consume turmeric acid on the first day of menstruation so that it can prevent the occurrence of excessive dysminorrhea pain that can interfere with the activities or activities of young women, acid turmeric is effective as a nonpharmacological and wrong treatment one alternative to reduce the level of disminore pain in adolescents who experience disminore.