The Effect Of Back Massage With Smooth Delivery Of Puerperial Breast Milk In The Work Area Of Medan Glugur Health Center 2019

Abstract

Back massage / oxytocin is a massage of the cervical spine, back or along the vertebrae (vertebrae) to the fifth to sixth rib. Oxytocin massage is an action taken by the husband to breastfeeding mothers in the form of back massage on the mother's back to help release the hormone oxytocin. Purpose: research to determine whether there is an effect of back massage with the smoothness of breast milk. Research method: Using Quasi-Experiment, Population: This research is the post-partum mothers in the working area of Puskesmas Glugur Darat Medan with a total of 88 people, and the sample is 32 people with purposive sampling technique. Dependent variable is Pungung massage, Independent variable is smoothness of breastfeeding. Data collection: observation sheets which were then processed using editing, coding scoring, tabulating and using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test statistical test. The results of this study indicate that there was a change in the number of respondents before doing and after back massage in the intervention group. Not smooth as many as 14 respondents (88%), after back massage was carried out smoothly as many as 14 respondents (88%). The results of this study were confirmed by the Wilcoxon test results obtained p value 0.000. P value = (0,000) α <0.05, which means there is an effect of back massage on the smoothness of breastfeeding.