Effectiveness of Hot application on abdominal pain in dysmenorrhoea among adolescent girls in selected college at Coimbatore

A study to assess the effectiveness of hot application on abdominal pain in dysmenorrhoea among adolescent girls in selected college at Coimbatore was conducted as a partial fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of master of science in Nursing,Cherraan’s college of Nursing, Coimbatore,under Tamil Nadu Dr.M.G.R. Medical University, Chennai. OBJECTIVES: The Objectives of the study were to assess the pain level among the adolescent girls with dysmenorrhoea,to evaluate the effectiveness of the hot application in management of abdominal pain in dysmenorrhoea among adolescent girls,to find the association between the level of pain with the demographic variables of dysmenorrhoea adolescent girls. Hypothesis were formulated such as there will be a significant difference in pain and severity following hot application in dysmenorrhea adolescent girls and there will be significant association between the pain level and selected demographic variable. An experimental study was done among adolescent girls with abdominal pain in dysmenorrhoea. Hot application was given on lower abdomen for 50 adolescent girls were selected respectively by purposive sampling technique.questionnaire and McCaffery numerical pain scale were used for data collection. The findings of the study revealed that there was a significant difference in abdominal pain after hot application in dysmenorrhoea among adolescent girls. The obtained ‘Z’ value 8.245 was significant at 0.05 level. The study revealed a significant difference in abdominal pain after hot application in dysmenorrhoea among adolescent girls. There are association between some of the demographic variables and pain. They are age, onset of menarche, number of days of menstruation, number of pads changed in a day and family history of dysmenorrhoea