Intensitas Nyeri Gout Arthritis pada Lansia dan Upaya untuk Menurunkan Gout Arthitis di Desa Sei Baharu

Abstract

The elderly belong to the age group which is very vulnerable to being affected by non-transmitted disease which will damage the body slowly from the small scale to bigger one. It will damage the tissues of movement function. Generally, it is caused by the ignorance to their own condition as old people. Therefore, along with the increasing member of elderly people in Indonesia., the government makes various efforts and policies on health care for the elderly in order to improve their health status and life expectancy. One of them is pain intensity of gout arthritis in the elderly and the effort to decrease gout arthritis. High pain intensity of gout arthritis will have the risk of disturbing daily activities if it is not handled immediately and if it is not regularly handled to decrease it. The objective of the research it to identify gout arthritis pain intensity and the effort to decrease it at Sei Baharu Village. The research uses descriptive quantitative method with retrospective approach. The samples are 48 elderly people who have the history of gout arthritis at Sei Baharu Village, taken by using non-probability sampling technique. The data are collected by conducting interview with questionnaire on pain scale appraisal, using Visual Analog Scala (VAS) and questionnaire on the effort to decrease gout arthritis. The collected data are analyzed by using univariate analysis. The results of the research shows that 60.4% of the respondents undergo serious pain (7-9), and 54.1% of the respondents attempt to decrease gout arthritis adequately at Sei Baharu Village. It is concluded that the gout arthritis pain intensity in the elderly is in the serious category, and the effort to decrease it is adequate at Sei Baharu Village. It is expected that the next researchers can provide education concerning pain intensity in gout arthritis and the effort to decrease it.