Reduce Headache Levels with Cupping Therapy Methods in Hypertensive Patients

Apriza, Apriza and Shafie, Mohd Zainab and Widada, Wahyudi and Bakar, Noor Azlina Abu and Abdullah, Nor Fadhilah (2023) Reduce Headache Levels with Cupping Therapy Methods in Hypertensive Patients. 1st International Health Conference STIKes Panca Bhakti (IHCPB), 1 (1). pp. 118-130. ISSN E-ISSN 3025-6836

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Abstract

Headaches are one of the most common signs of symptoms complained by people with hypertension. This study aims to find out the effect of cupping therapy on the headaches of people with hypertension in Tsabita Nursing Health Care Clinic (TNHC), Kampar Regency, Indonesia. This study uses quasi�experiment methods with non-equivalent pretest-posttest designs. The sample was a hypertensive sufferer who experienced headaches and visited to get cupping therapy at the TNHC clinic and was willing to be respondents to a total of 31 people. The sampling method used is consecutive sampling which is taking the entire population into samples. The study used univariate and bivariate analysis methods. The results of the univariate analysis showed that most of the respondents were female 22 people (71%), the age range was at 36-45 years 12 people (38.7%), work in general as housewives 16 people (51.6%), the scale of headaches before cupping therapy is moderate pain 23 people (74.2%) and severe pain 8 people (25.8%), the scale of pain after cupping therapy is mild pain 26 people (83.9%) and moderate pain 5 people (16.1%). The results of the statistical test analysis dependent T�test p-value < 0,000 means that there is a significant difference in the average headache scale before and after cupping therapy. Cupping therapy can be used as one of the implementations in reducing pain/headache in people with hypertension. Keywords: Cupping therapy; headache; hypertension

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