The Use of Lavender Aromatherapy as A Stimulant To Increase Pre-School Children’s Appetite

Khadijah, Sitti and Vitrianingsih, Vitrianingsih (2019) The Use of Lavender Aromatherapy as A Stimulant To Increase Pre-School Children’s Appetite. In: THE FIRST ASIA – PASIFIC PARTNERSHIP ON HEALTH AND NUTRITION IMPROVEMENT (APHNI) CONFERENCE, 3 OKTOBER 2019, YOGYAKARTA.

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Abstract

Backgrounds: Pre-school age is a period in which children experience very rapid growth and development. Therefore, adequate nutrition is needed both in terms of quality and quantity. One of the problems that often arise to meet the nutritional needs is children’s eating difficulty. One of the treatments as an action to handle that problem is by using aromatherapy. Objectives: To find out the effect of lavender aromatherapy on increasing pre-school children’s appetite. Methods: The type of this study was quasi-experimental research using a pretest-posttest design group approach to find out the effectiveness of the use of aromatherapy to increase pre-school children’s appetite. This study was conducted at PGTK Jogja Kids Park with 21 respondents as samples taken using total sampling technique. The data were analyzed with univariate and bivariate statistics using the paired t-test. Results: The percentage of pre-school children’s appetite, before being given lavender aromatherapy, was 81% which was in the high category, then, after being given lavender aromatherapy, it increased to 95,2%. The result of paired t-test showed that giving lavender aromatherapy had an effect to increase pre-school children’s appetite with the p-value of 0.009 < 0.05. Conclusion: Giving lavender aromatherapy can increase pre-school children’s appetite effectively. Keywords: Lavender Aromatherapy, Appetite, Pre-School Children

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information: Publisher: Faculty of Health Sciences Alma Ata University Jl. Brawijaya 99, Yogyakarta 55183 Telp : (+62274) 434 2288,(0274) 434 2270 Email : uaa@almaata.ac.id ISBN: 978-623-223-055-2
Subjects: ILMU ILMU KESEHATAN > ILMU KEBIDANAN
ILMU ILMU KESEHATAN > ILMU KEPERAWATAN
Divisions: FAKULTAS ILMU-ILMU KESEHATAN > PRODI S1 ILMU KEPERAWATAN
Depositing User: Awan Megantoro AMd
Date Deposited: 20 Aug 2020 04:52
Last Modified: 20 Aug 2020 04:52
URI: http://elibrary.almaata.ac.id/id/eprint/1933

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