The Effectiveness of Practice Counter Pressure Massage to Reducing the Intensity of Labor Pain

Background: Labor pain could affect the functional mechanisms that cause physiological stress responses, resulting in a decrease in uterine contractions. One of the non-pharmacological methods is very effective in overcoming labor pain is the method of massage. There are many techniques for performing massage, including counter pressure techniques. There are differences in the way or place of massage so that it has different effects and sensations. Objective: To analyze the effect of Counter pressure in reducing the intensity of labor pain. Methods: Quasi-experiment with random cluster design pretest and posttest control group design. There were 40 samples divided into 2 groups with Consecutive sampling technique. Each group consists of 20 respondents. Group 1 was given a of Counter pressure interventions practices, while the second group was a control group. The analysis was used to assess differences in pain reduction between the 2 groups using the Mann-Whitney test. Results: The mean difference of the VAS (visual analog scale) measurement scale in the treatment group -41.00 � 7.88 while the control group -10.50 � 9.45 can be said that the application of counterpressure massage is more effective in reducing pain intensity compared to the application of back massage viewed from the p-value = 0.000 (p