Shallot Compress on The Body Temperature of Baby Aged 0-12 Months Who Suffer AESI (Adverse Event of Special Interest)

Abstract

In Indonesia, immunization is still a challenge. The proportion of children aged 12-23 months who have received all of their basic immunizations is remains low, at 57.9%. According to data from Lampung Province in 2018, 67.3 percent of children aged 12 to 23 months had received all of their baseline immunizations. Meanwhile, the proportion of complete basic immunization for infants in South Lampung Regency in 2018 was still below the target, reaching 71.6%. The research objective was to determine the effectiveness of shallot compresses on the body temperature of baby aged 0-12 months who suffer AESI (Adverse Event of Special Interest).This type of research is a pre-experiment used one group pretest posttest design. The sample in this research were baby aged 0-12 months who suffer post-immunization fever, with a sample of 17 respondents by using accidental sampling. In analysis used the T test (paired sample t-test). The results of univariate analysis obtained that the average temperature of baby aged 0-12 months who suffer AESI before being given the shallot compress treatment was 38.1 °C with a standard deviation of 0.295 and decreased after being given a shallot compress to 37.4° C with a standard deviation of 0.441. The results of the bivariate analysis showed that the effect of shallot compresses on the body temperature of baby aged 0-12 months who experienced AESI (p-value = 0,000 (p-value <α (0.05)). Suggestions for the health workers to be able to teach compresses with shallot in the intervention for managing hyperthermia in children after immunization.