Abstract

ARI (Acute Respiratory Infection) is a general cause of morbidity and causes of death in toddlers. The majority of suffering from ARI have cough, runny nose, shortness of breath, fuss and often wake up at night. The purpose of this research is to know the effect of baby massage with common cold massage oil to temperature, pulse rate, breath frequency and sleep quality in underfives with ARI in Kedungmundu Health Center.This type of quasi-experimental research uses a pretest-posttest approach with control group design. The samples were the toddler of ARI treated at Puskesmas Kedungmundu with the number of respondents 32 respondents (16 respondents as treatment group and 16 respondents as control group). Massage of baby with common cold massage oil done by researcher in treatment group. Sampling technique is by simple random sampling. Data collection using observation sheet and BSIQ.Bivariate analysis was used to prove the effect of baby massage with common cold massage oil on temperature change, pulse frequency, breath frequency and sleep quality in underfives with ARI in the control group and treatment with 5% significance (? = 0.05). The t test showed p = 0.002 for temperature, p = 0,000 for pulse rate, p = 0.006 for breath frequency, and p = 0,000 for sleep quality. The result of t test means that there is influence of baby massage with common cold massage oil to temperature change, pulse frequency, breath frequency and sleep quality in toddler with ARI in Kedungmundu Health Center. Further research needs to be developed for the bound variables to be able to investigate the type and number of bacteria that cause ARI.