THE MIRACLE OF TOUCH THERAPY ON THE HEALING PROCESS AND ALSO THE REDUCTION OF PAIN SCALE IN NEONATES Sunanto (a*), Alwin Widhiyanto (b), Wardatul Washila (c)
Stikes Hafshawaty Pesantren Zainul Hasan
Abstract
Neonates are a group that is prone to experience health problems that require treatment to maintain their lives. Neonates will often undergo invasive procedures that cause pain, increasing morbidity. Healing touch is a non-pharmacological intervention to reduce pain in neonates. This study aims to determine the effect of touch therapy (healing touch) toward reducing pain scale in neonates in NICU Room of Dr Mohamad Saleh Hospital, Probolinggo .This research was pre-experimental with one group pretest posttest design. Data was taken at NICU on August 2021 by accidental sampling, the number of respondents was 15 infants aged 0-28 days. The healing touch intervention was performed once for 15 minutes after the invasive procedure. Pain scale measurement using NIPS. Data collection includes coding, editing, and tabulating then the data is analyzed by using the Pairet Samples T Test. The results of the Paired Samples Test analysis showed that r = 0.000 so that r = 0.000 < = 0.05. From the results of this analysis, it can be concluded that H1 is accepted, which means that there is an effect of healing touch on the reduction of pain scale in neonates in NICU room at the Mohamad Saleh Hospital, Probolinggo .Healing Touch is a complementary therapy that can be used as an option to help overcome pain complaints in neonates so that it can be applied in the treatment room.
