The Effect of Endorphin Massage on Reducing The Intensity of Back Pain in Third Trimester Pregnant Women: A Systematic Review

[摘要] Background: During the period of pregnancy, the mother will experience physical and psychological changes that will cause discomfort, one of them is back pain. Persistent pain not resolvedimmediately can result in chronic pain. Endorphin massage is a non-pharmacological method withtouch or light massage techniques that can provide a feeling of calm and comfort to pregnant womenwho are entering late pregnancy until before labor. This study aimed to determine the effect ofendorphin massage on decreasing back pain intensity in third trimester pregnant women.Subjects and Method: This systematic review uses three databased article searches, namelyPubmed, Research Gate and Schoolar with a publication time of the last 5 years. The criteriainclusion were pregnant women who experienced back pain and given endorphin massage. Therewas no comparison, quasi-experimental research design, randomized control and trial, qualitativeresearch, cross-sectional. Articles published in 2015 – 2020 both of Indonesian and English Article.The exclusion criteria were the article with systematic review method.Results: Nine articles that met the inclusion criteria were used in this study. The article mostlydiscusses the effect of endorphin massage on reducing back pain intensity in third trimester pregnantwomen (7 articles) and compares the effect of endorphin massage with other non-pharmacologicaltherapies (2 articles) with 5 articles using a pre-experimental research design and 4 articles using aresearch design. Quasy-experiments and the average number of samples in the articles reviewedwere more than 250 subjects.Conclusion: Endorphin massage is effective in reducing the intensity of back pain in the thirdtrimester of pregnant women.

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[关键词] éndorphin massage;back pain;pregnant women