The effect of lemon aromatherapy inhalation on reducing the degree of emesis gravidarum in first trimester pregnant women at TPMB Puji Astuti Surabaya

One of the discomforts that occurs in pregnant women in the first trimester is nausea, vomiting (emesis gravidarum). Emesis gravidarum causes discomfort due to feelings of dizziness, flatulence, and a feeling of weakness in the body. Emesis gravidarum can be treated with nutritional therapy, nonpharmacological therapy and pharmacological therapy. Lemon aromatherapy is a non-pharmacological therapy that can be used by pregnant women to reduce emesis gravidarum. The aim of this research is to determine the effect of lemon aromatherapy inhalation on reducing the degree of emesis gravidarum in pregnant women in the 1st trimester. Method: This research is true-experimental research with a two group pretest-posttest design. The instrument used was the Nausea Vomiting Index Nausea Vomitting and Retching (INVR) questionnaire. Data analysis used the Wilcoxon test to determine the effect of inhalation from the two groups. Results: In the intervention group, after being given treatment, they got a mean score of 1.94 with a standard deviation of 0.659. Based on the Wilcoxon test, a p-value of 0.000 was obtained, which means it is smaller than the significant value, namely <0.05. So it can be concluded that there was an effect in the intervention group before and after giving lemon aromatherapy, compared with the control group, the emesis gravidarum score before was found to be a mean of 2.82 with a standard deviation of 0.728. and after getting a value with a mean of 2.76 with a standard deviation of 0.664, based on the Wilcoxon test, a p-value of 0.317 was obtained, which means it is greater than the significant value, namely >0.05. So it can be concluded that there was no effect on the control group before and after not being given treatment at TPMB Puji Astuti Surabaya. Conclusion: There is an effect of giving lemon aromatherapy inhalation on reducing the degree of emesis gravidarum in pregnant women in the 1st trimester.