Pengkajian Nyeri Multidimensional pada Remaja dengan Dismenore Primer

Pain is an unpleasant, sensory and emotional experience resulting from
actual and potential tissue damage. A commonly pain that afflicted by young
women is primary dysmenorrhea. Assessment of multidimensional pain is
required to obtain a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the pain felt by the
patient in this case, especially adolescents with primary dysmenorrhea. This study
aims to obtain a description of multidimensional pain in adolescents with primary
dysmenorrhea.
This research was descriptive research with cross sectional design. The
sample in this study were 78 patients who experienced primary dysmenorrhea
with purposive sampling with inclusion criteria of respondents were middle aged
and late adolescents who experienced primary dysmenorrhea, willing to be a
respondent and can read and write in the Indonesian language. While the
exclusion criteria were the respondents diagnosed with certain gynecological
diseases or secondary dysmenorrhea. Measurement of pain used
multidimensional assessment questionnaires Adolescent Pediatric Pain Tool
(APPT). Data analysis in this research used descriptive analysis to know
distribution, frequency, percentage of variable.
The results showed that a body outline diagram obtained the location of
most pain felt by adolescents with primary dysmenorrhea was in the lower
abdominal region or region hypogastric (pubic) region and low back pain or pain
in the lower back. Pain intensity with medium pain intensity criterion (medium
pain) that was equal to 56,4%. Pain quality had mean value 52,58 which mean
mean of quality of adolescent pain with dysmenorrhea was moderate pain.
Menstruation is routinely occurs every month will cause problems if
followed by menstrual pain or dysmenorrhea, therefore nurse need efforts to
overcome dysmenorrhea in adolescents so that menstruation does not interfere
with the daily activities of adolescents.