Original Research Article
Year: 2018 | Month: January-March | Volume: 3 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 88-96
Effectiveness of Cinnamon Tea and Turmeric Water for Reducing Dysmenorrhoea among Degree Girls
Afrinbanu Dyawapur1, Ninganagouda G Patil2 , Laxmi Metri 3
1Asst. Professor, 2Associate Professor, 3 Fourth year Basic B Sc Nursing Student,
B L D E A’s Shri B M Patil Institute of Nursing Sciences Vijayapur 586103, Karnataka, India
Corresponding Author: Afrinbanu Dyawapur
ABSTRACT
Aim: To find out the effectiveness of cinnamon tea and turmeric water to reduce dysmenorrhoea among degree girls.
Settings and design: Setting of the study is selected girls hostels at Vijayapur. Comparative Experimental study design.
Materials and Methods: By using Non probability purposive sampling technique 60 samples were selected.
Results: The study results shows that 43.33% of samples are having moderate pain in pre test of cinnamon tea and in post test of cinnamon tea group 40% each having mild and moderate pain, 20% having no pain. In pre test of turmeric water group 73.33% having moderate pain where as in post test 60% samples having mild Pain and 36.66% samples having moderately severe pain. The calculated t value shows that there is a significant difference between pre test and post test effect of cinnamon tea (t28=15.78, df=28) and pre test and post test effect of turmeric water is (t28=2.11, df28=2.05). The unpaired t test shows that there is no significant difference between cinnamon tea and turmeric water in reducing the dysmennorhea pain (t58=0.5, df58=1.98) There is a significant association between pre test pain scores before administering cinnamon tea with selected demographic variables like family history of dysmenorrhoea (X2=6.7522, df=2). There is a significant association between pre test pain scores before administering turmeric water with selected demographic variables like education (X2=9.127, df=3), religion (X2=6.7522, df=2), dietary pattern (X2=68.207, df=3).
Conclusions: The study concludes that cinnamon and turmeric both are having equal effectiveness to reduce dysmenorrhoea.
Keywords: Cinnamon tea, Turmeric water, Dysmenorrhoea