https://jurnal.pkr.ac.id/index.php/JIA <p>Jurnal Ibu dan Anak is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal published twice on May and November. It is dedicated to promoting scholarly exchange among teachers, practitioners and researchers in the field of midwifery.</p> <p>Jurnal Ibu dan Anak provides an international, interdisciplinary forum for the publication, dissemination and discussion of advances in evidence, controversies and current research, and promotes continuing education through publication of systematic and other scholarly reviews and updates. Jurnal ibu dan Anak articles cover the cultural, clinical, psycho-social, sociological, epidemiological, education, managerial, workforce, organizational and technological areas of practice in preconception, maternal and infant care, maternity services and other health systems.</p> en-US jurnal_ibu_anak@pkr.ac.id (Siska Helina) siska@pkr.ac.id (Siska Helina) Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 OJS 3.1.1.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 https://jurnal.pkr.ac.id/index.php/JIA/article/view/1295 <p><em>Back pain is one of inconvenience on quarter III pregnant women which can disturb daily activity. Based on the researcher’s preliminary survey in January 2022 at PMB Dince Safrina Pekanbaru City, out of 10 quarter III pregnant women found 8 people of them complaint of back pain. One of nonpharmacologist method to overcome back pain is through Back Massage. The purpose of this research was to find out the influence of back massage on back pain of quarter III pregnant women. The type of this research was pre experiment with one group pretest and post test design. The population in this research were quarter III pregnant women who checked their pregnancy at PMB Dince Safrina Pekanbaru City in Januari-April 2022. The samples in this research were 15 quarter III pregnant women with back pain complaint selected through purposive sampling. Data collection method was observation by using data collection instrument namely Numeric Rating Scale (NRS). The test used was Wilcoxon test with significance level 95%. Based on the statistical test, there was influence of back massage on back pain of quarter III pregnant women (p = 0,001). It is expected that the medical staff especially midwifery at PMB Dince Safrina to be able to apply back massage as one of nonpharmacology therapy on managing back pain of quarter III pregnant women</em></p> Ari Susanti, Zumariati Zumariati, Afat Irawati ##submission.copyrightStatement## https://jurnal.pkr.ac.id/index.php/JIA/article/view/1295 Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000