Pengaruh Terapi Kombinasi Brandt Droff dan Aromaterapi Lemon Terhadap Nyeri Pasien Vertigo di Rumah Sakit Islam Sultan Agung Semarang

Background: Vertigo is a group of symptoms caused by a disturbance in the balance of the vestibular or central nervous system. Complaints of vertigo can come in the form of nausea, dizziness, spinning, or a feeling of being pulled or drawn in an upright position. Dizziness can also be caused by disturbances in the body's balance organs, including receptors in the eye (retina), in the vestibular and semicircular canals, as well as in tendons, joints, and internal sense organs. Objective: Identifying the characteristics of respondents including age, gender, and measuring the scale of moderate, mild and severe symptoms after performing brandt daroff combination therapy accompanied by lemon aromatherapy. Methods: Pre-experiment research design with one group pretest and post test design with purposive sampling technique, a total of 14 respondents with observation sheet instruments. Results: Based on the analysis, the average number of vertigo complaints experienced by respondents was a score of 32.9. After the respondents were given Brandt Deroff therapy accompanied by lemon, the level of vertigo headache decreased to a score of 1.50. wilcoxon test showed a significance value.2 marked 0.001 <0.05, also Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. Conclusion: So it can be concluded that there is an average difference between the results of therapy before (pre-test) and after (post-test) which means that there is an effect of Brandt Daroff treatment accompanied by lemon aromatherapy on reducing the pain scale of vertigo patients in cases at RSI Sultan Agung Semarang.