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Introduction: Surgery is an invasive medical procedure which performed to diagnose or treat illness, injury, or disability. The decrease of intestinal peristaltic and incidence of pain may occur as a result of these actions; moreover, it affects blood pressure and other physiologic parameters; thus, will make prolong the healing period because it will interfere with the patient activity and become one of the reasons for the patient unwilling to perform early mobilization. Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of early mobilization program to improve pain level, intestinal peristaltic and physiologic parameters on Post Surgery Patients. Method: This study used quasi experimental design with One – Group Pretest-Posttest, and there were 33 patients which chosen using total sampling technique. Pain level, intestinal peristaltic, blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature were measured at before and after 3 days intervention of early mobilization program. Result: Wilcoxon statistical analysis revealed significant difference in decreasing levels on pain, increasing intestinal peristaltic, decreasing systolic blood pressure and decreasing heart rate (p<0.05) at before compared to after intervention of early mobilization on post-surgery patients. Multivariate analysis showed that intervention of early mobilization, age and type of surgery simultaneously affect dependent variables ((p<0.05; moreover, the r-squared is 0.727 which indicates that early mobilization intervention contributed 72.7% to changes in pain level, intestinal peristaltic and physiologic parameters. Conclusion: It is suggested that nurses should perform and apply early mobilization program to post surgery patients, because of its positive impact to patient will faster patient’s recovery process.
Prabawati et al. (Wed,) studied this question.