The Effect of Consumption of Boiled Chicken Egg Whites in Postpartum Mothers on Healing of Perineal Wounds at TPMB Zubaedah and Usmalanah

Abstract

Introduction: One of the causes of postpartum infection is injury to the perineum. Wounds in the perineum due to rupture or laceration are areas that are not easily dried. The incidence of perineal trauma incidents is estimated to be 80% in August in women who give birth vaginally. Object: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of consuming boiled chicken egg whites in postpartum mothers on the healing of perineal wounds. Method: This type of research is Quasi Experiment with a descriptive approach.posttest only group design. The population of this study was 44 respondents, a sample of 30 was obtained with 15 postpartum mothers who were intervened and 15 postpartum mothers who were used as controls using non-probability sampling techniques. The method of data collection used observation sheets and questionnaires.Univariate analysis uses the mean and bivariate analysis uses the testshapiro wilk. Results: The results of univariate analysis of 15 respondents obtained an average wound healing time consuming egg whites of 5.13 days with a standard deviation of 0.834 and an average wound healing time not consuming egg whites of 6.60 days with a standard deviation of 0.910. The results of statistical tests using the Wilcoxon test obtained a p valuea value of 0.0005 if the p value is 0.005 which means Ha is accepted. Conclusion: there is an effect of consuming boiled chicken egg white on healing perineal wounds.