Pengaruh Pijat Bayi Terhadap Bounding Attachment di Ruang Dahlia RSD dr. Soebandi Jember

Abstract

Bounding attachment is very important for newborn to be adapted to the new environment. Mother’s
touch can help babies adapt to environmental differences between inside the womb and outside the
womb. How to improve the bounding attachment is early breastfeeding initiation, rooming in,
kangaroo mother care for premature, and baby massage. The purpose of this research is to
determine the impact of baby massage to bounding attachment. The method of research was quasi
experimental with design of research pretest-post test with control group. This research is in Dahlia
room in dr. Soebandi general Hospital, with samples as 40 respondent with 20 people for
experimental group and 20 people for control group. The research use standard operational
procedure of baby massage and quality of bounding attachment questionnaire. Take the sample by
purposive sampling. The results of research is give difference in average pretest-post test on the
experimental group of -7,35 whereas on the control group of -2,55. Statistic test result obtained the p
value 0.001, this mean on the alpha 5% can be expressed there is influence of baby massage for
bounding attachment. There are several factors that influence to the bounding attachment that is
emotional health of parent, family support, the proximity and match of the parents and baby. The
result of this research are recommended as the nursing treatment and to the public especially
mother postpartum.
Keywords : baby massage, bounding attachment