Abstract:
Dysmenorrhea is a menstrual problem that usually occurs in young women.
When dysmenorrhea, interferes with activity, non-pharmacological treatment
will be an alternative to reduce dysmenorrhea. One way to deal with pain in a
non-pharmacological way is by intellectual distraction, with the theory of
reticular activation, which can inhibit pain stimulation when a person
receives adequate or excessive sensory input, which results in the inhibition
of pain impulses to the brain. Intellectual distraction techniques include
filling in crosswords, playing cards, doing hobbies (in bed) such as collecting
stamps, writing stories. This study aims to identify the effectiveness of
intellectual disorders in reducing dysmenorrhea in young women. This study
uses a design that is Quasi-Experiment with a pretest and posttest design
without a control group. Population In this study were 122 female students
from Mojoanyar Middle School. The sample in this study were all students of
Mojoanyar Middle School who experienced dysmenorrhoea who had
fulfilled the inclusion criteria of 23 respondents. The tool used to determine
changes in the level of pain of respondents is the Face pain rating. The
intervention provided was that respondents were asked to fill in the TTS. The
collected data was analyzed using SPSS data normality test using the
Wilcoxon test with SPSS 23 for Windows. And it was found that before less
than half 43,5percent of Intellectual Distraction or 10 respondents
experienced mild pain, whereas after being given Intellectual Distraction less
than half 34,8 percent or 8 respondents experienced mild and moderate pain
and no more respondents experienced very severe pain. Therefore young
women need to reduce the intensity of menstrual pain by providing
Intellectual Distractions techniques with crosswords and accessing them can
be through cellphones
