Abstract

Jahidin Kuswanto*, Rr Sri Endang Puji Astuti and Bedjo Santoso

ABSTRACT

Surgical action is a treatment that uses an invasive method by opening the part of the body to be treated, after surgery the pain is physiologically felt, but this is the one complaint that is most feared by the patient after surgery. One of the complementariness used to reduce complications of postoperative syndrome of pain in Laparatomi patients is spiritual self-healing. Analyzing the effectiveness of spiritual self-healing against postoperative syndrome of pain in Laparatomi patients. This true experimental study used a pre-test and post-test control group design approach involving 60 post-operative laparotomy patients at the BLUD hospital RSD dr.H.Soemarno Sosroatmodjo Regency of Bulungan taken randomly with stratified random sampling. 30 respondents became the intervention group and 30 respondents became the control group. The intervention group received complementary spiritual self-healing therapy 7 times for 7 days with a duration of 15 minutes and the therapy was in accordance with the standard of postoperative patients in the hospital while the control group only received therapy according to the standard postoperative in the hospital. Data analyzed with repeated measure test. The results showed that there were differences in the mean pain scale in the intervention group and the control group after receiving therapy spiritual self-healing with a value of p = 0,000 which means that spiritual intervention is self-healing effective to reduce the scale of pain in Laparatomi patients. Spiritual self-healing is effective against postoperative syndrome of pain in Laparatomi patients.