The Influence of Red Ginger Extract in Menopouse Climacterium Period of Total Cholesterols in Covid-19 Pandemic Period in East Java

Abstract

Siti Mudrikatin

COVID-19, which has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020, is increasingly widespread, WHO reports that today a total of 380,000 people died. In Indonesia an increasing number of 1,721 people died and infected cases in the data in Jombang East Java as many as 69 people who were positive for COVID-19 were hospitalized more than half were over 40 years old. This COVID-19 pandemic condition also causes stress in mothers whose menopausal climacteria can have a major impact because of the decrease in the body's estrogen hormone. heart. One effort to control cholesterol levels is recommended for antioxidant content. Red Ginger (Zingiber officinale var rubrum) is one of the spices that has antioxidant content that has long been used as traditional medicine by most people in Indonesia. The next benefit of red ginger is able to reduce bad cholesterol in the blood. Cholesterol can inhibit blood circulation throughout the body. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of giving red ginger extract in women during menopausal climacteria to total cholesterol during the COVID-19 pandemic in Jombang, East Java. The study design used a quasiexperimental design with a non equivalent (pretest and posttest) control group design. The sample of this research was 92 menopausal climacteric women in Jombang, East Java, consisting of 92 respondents consisting of 46 treatment respondents and 46 control groups. Sampling using purposive sampling. The treatment is giving red ginger extract. The results of research on female respondents during the menopause climaxium mean total cholesterol levels pre test (before given red ginger extract) amounted to the results of the research on female respondents during the menopause climacterial period the total cholesterol levels pre test (before given red ginger extract) was 222.61mg / dl and the mean post-test total cholesterol levels (after given red ginger extract) dropped to 200.61mg / dL. b). The treatment group respondents obtained the mean value of Pre test 222.61 and Post test 200.61. Whereas t Stat 4,991> t Critical two-tail 2,110 and ρ value 0,000.