AROMATHERAPY DECREASES LEVEL OF PAIN AMONG PATIENTS WHO EXPERIENCE MIGRAIN

Introduction: Migraine was one of the headache type which is often griped by most of young woman. Migraine could influence activity, degrading work productivity, bothering work, family and social life, and there was possibility to loose job opportunity and decreased salary. Aromatherapy was one of the alternative that could be taken to decrease the migraine pain. Aromatherapy was trust directly influent brain to changed someone’s emotion and mood. The objective of this study was to analyze the effect of aromatherapy to decrease the migraine pain. Method: This study was used a quasy-eksperimental design. There were 12 respondents who met the inclusion criteria, divided into treatment and control group. The independent variable was giving aromatherapy and the dependent variable was decrease pain level of migraine patients. Data were obtained by using observation and questionare, then analyzed by using Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test with level of significanceα ≤0.05, Mann-Withney U Test with level of significance