Pengaruh Terapi Pijat Terhadap Kenaikan Berat Badan Bayi Prematur di RSUP. Dr. M. Djamil Padang

Abstract

Prematurity had a very high risk in mortality of infants. An infant born with pregnancy periode less than 37 weeks and had body weight as gestation period was called by prematurity or else less months neonates. Premature infant often experienced a low body weight problem. Stimulation was needed in raising the body weight of premature infant. One of the non invansif actions that encouraged in increasing the weight was massage therapy. Massage, accorded to the American Association of Massage Therapy (AMTA) was defined as the manipulation of soft tissue by using hand or body to hold, move or give stressing on body manually. The research focused on knowing the influence of message therapy to the raising of the body weight of premature infant in dr. M. Djamil Padang. The research had been held on March to April 2012 on 18 of stable premature infants. This research had been using the pre- experimental one group pretest posttest measurement. It had been done by recorded the body weight of infant before and after message therapy was applied for 5 days. T-Test dependent (paired t-test) was used for statistic test result. Statistic test result with bivariate analysis showed that there was a body weight changing (p = 0.000). It meaned that massage therapy affected the raising of the body weight of premature infant.