Effect Of Lemon’s Grass Boiled Water Compresses To Reduce Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain In The Elderly at Mengandung Sari Health Center East Lampung

Abstract

Rheumatoid Arthritis is one of the diseases suffered by the elderly, which is a disease that attacks the joints in autoimmune inflammation resulting in swelling, which can causeRepeated Stem damage to the inside of the joints causingRepeated Stem pain. The influencing factors are age, gender, occupation. Impact from rheumatoid arthritis pain not only gives discomfort but canMissing Verb a life-threatening patient. Many experience Rheumatoid Arthritis with pharmacological therapy such as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs that can affect body functions. Purpose: Research to see that giving warm lemon grass boiled water compresses can be effect to reduction of Rheumatoid Arthritis pain. This research is an experimental study with the one group pretest-posttest. The population is all elderly using accidental sampling obtained 16 respondents, The dependent variable is Rheumatoid Arthritis. The independent variable is compresses of warm lemon grass boiled water. This study usesRepeated Stem observation sheets and Standart Operating Procedure, data analysis usingRepeated Stem the Willcoxon test. The results of the bivariate analysis showed a significant of p value  = 0.000, which means <0.5 it’s mean Haha accepted there’s effect of lemon grass boiled water compresses with to reducing rheumatoid arthritis pain. It is expected to provide education and explain how to apply a compress of warm lemon grass boiled water as an intensive non-pharmacological treatment in order to reduce pain Rheumatoid Arthritis to be elderly suffer of Rheumatoid Arthritis.