HUBUNGAN PIJAT BAYI DENGAN FREKUENSI SAKIT BAYI DI KECAMATAN KARTASURA

Abstract

Massage is one of forming of touch therapy as one of an important therapy technique. baby massagec continuety sick assist baby healthy and assists growing physical and emotion of baby. Baby who was seldom give periodical baby massage would more risk to sick compared with baby get more regular. baby massage. The object of research was aim to know benefit of baby massage as one of way of preventing age baby pain in Kecamatan Kartasura. Design research was quasi experimental, with non equivalent control group design as retrospectively. Research sample was 30 babies who aged 1-3 months divided 2 group. 15 respondents experiment group and 15 respondents control group. Taking sample was using simple random sampling technique. Data analysis was using independent t test. Respondents was massaged by health care staff. Result of research shows that 15 babies who do not give massaged, 8 health sick, 7 babies health, while 15 babies who has given massaged there were 13 health babies, and 2 babies sick. Test result independent t test shows t test = - 2,157 smaller than ttable = - 1,96 with significance 0,044 ( p<0,05). Result of this shows Ho is rejected, it mean baby that is often is massaged baby pain frequency lower than at baby which seldom be massaged.