Research Article
Pain Intensity on School-Age Children Through Intravenous Insertion with Peppermint Aromatherapy as Intervention Method at Pediatric Room RSUD Ulin Banjarmasin
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.23-11-2019.2298395, author={Malisa Ariani}, title={Pain Intensity on School-Age Children Through Intravenous Insertion with Peppermint Aromatherapy as Intervention Method at Pediatric Room RSUD Ulin Banjarmasin}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First National Seminar Universitas Sari Mulia, NS-UNISM 2019, 23rd November 2019, Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={NS-UNISM}, year={2020}, month={7}, keywords={peppermint aromatheraphy school-age children pain intensity intravenous insertion}, doi={10.4108/eai.23-11-2019.2298395} }- Malisa Ariani
Year: 2020
Pain Intensity on School-Age Children Through Intravenous Insertion with Peppermint Aromatherapy as Intervention Method at Pediatric Room RSUD Ulin Banjarmasin
NS-UNISM
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.23-11-2019.2298395
Abstract
Intravenous therapy is one of procedure that may cause pain and can be a problem on children during hospitalization. Aromatherapy is one of non-pharmacological method that is easy to do to help decreasing or reducing the pain. This study aims to describe of children pain intensity when they have intravenous insertion using peppermint aromatherapy intervention and no intervention. This research is quantitative and descriptive design. There are 24 children as the participants by using purposive sampling technique. The data is collected using Wong Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale. The result of this study showed the mean of pain intensity in intervention group was 2,17 and 4,08 in non-intervention group. Inhalation aromatherapy using peppermint essence has helped to reduce the pain intensity in school-age children during intravenous insertion