THE INFLUENCE OF INCENTIVE SPIROMETRY ON THE FREQUENCY OF ATTACKS FOR ASTHMA PATIENTS AT THE INPATIENT HEALTH CENTER FOR WOMEN IN RUMBAI PEKANBARU DISTRICT, RIAU

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Asthma has an impact on every activity, can interfere with respiratory function into complications. Therefore it is necessary to make efforts to control asthma to reduce asthma symptoms by using incentive spirometry tools. Incentive spirometry is a tool that provides exercise to the lungs by encouraging deep breathing with the movement of the diaphragm, the muscles between the lungs and the stomach. Deep breathing exercises help open air sacs in the lungs and can reduce the risk of breathing problems. The study aims to determine the effect of incentive spirometry exercise on the frequency of asthma attacks before and after exercise. This research is a quantitative research with Quasi Experiment design with the research design is pre-post test one group pre post test design. Retrieval of data from August 2019 to January 2020. Measuring instruments used in this study were respiratory incentive observation sheets by recording time and maximum volume for 12 days, carried out 3 times in one day for 5 minutes, research samples were 18 respondents. The average asthma recurrence before incentive spirometry was 3.06 times in 12 days while the average asthma recurrence after incentive spirometry was 2.06 times in 12 days. Based on the Wilcoxon alternative test obtained p value = 0.04, p value <0.05 then there is the effect of incentive spirometry on the frequency of asthma attacks in the Pekanbaru Women's Inpatient Health Center. The results of this study can be used as a guide for asthma patients that incentive spirometry can reduce asthma recurrence rates and improve asthma control in patients and can be used as a first step for patients in the first treatment of asthma without being referred to the hospital.