THE EFFECT OF WARMING COMPRESSES IN LOWERING REUMATIC PAIN IN ELDERLY AT TRESNA WERDHA HOUSEHOLD SOCIAL PROTECTION BOGOR

Abstract

The Background of research is according to Social Assistance of Seniors erderly in Indonesia(ASLUT)report that the number of diseases directly reported by erderly in 2013. according togender about 30.34% of men and 35.04% of women are suffer from rheumatism, 18.00% of menand 24,45% of women are suffer of hypertension, 5.41% of men and 6.29% of women are suffer ofcataracts, 6.02% of men and women 4.51% are suffer of asthma, and 2.94% of men and 2.89%of women are suffer of heart disease. The Purpose of Study is identify the effect of giving warmcompress pain reduction towards elderly whom experience rheumatism in the Sub Unit of theProtection house Tresna Werdha Bogor. The Method of the design research is quasi experimentresearch which used One Group Pre and Posttes Design. Sampling of this research is method ortechnique total sampling with the number of thirty two elderly. Based on the result of frequencydistribution of rheumatic pain level, before being conducted warm compress was found the resultmeasurement of severe pain scale with number of six people (37,6%), moderate pain eight people(50%) and light pain two people (12,5%), The level of arthritic pain after being conducted warmcompress was found the result of measuring the scale. numbers moderate pain eight people (50,1%), light pain eight people(50, 1%) The result of statistical T dependent was found P value 0.001 while α = 0.05 .So, P Value