Authors: Risman Tunny1, Aulia Deby Pelu2, Takimpo Firman3
1&2Lecturer at STIKes Maluku Husada, Indonesia
2Student at STIKes Maluku Husada, Indonesia
Email: tunnyapt@yahoo.co.id
Abstract
Appendicitis is a common causal factor of acute inflammation at under right quadrant of abdomen cavity, and the common causal to emergency abdomen surgery. In 2013, appendicitis occurrence is placed the hight rate among other emergency abdomen cases. This study aims to figure out the effect of deep breath relaxation technique towards painful scale reduction on post appendectomy patient in male surgery room of RSUD Dr. M. Haulussy Ambon. It is a quassy experimental study by using one group pre-posttest design approach. The samples are 3 persons applying accidental sampling technique. The research instrument used is observation sheet, in processing the data, this study uses SPSS using Wilcoxon test with the significant level of 0.05. The result shows that the significant value of deep breath relaxation technique towards painful scale reduction is 0.10. From these result, it can be concluded that is no effect of deep breath relaxation technique towards painful scale reduction on post appendectomy patient in male surgery room of RSUD Dr. M. Haulussy Ambon.
Keywords: Deep Breath Relaxation, Painful Scale