BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF COMPLEMENTARY THERAPY TRENDS FOR MENSTRUATION PAIN

ABSTRACT Background Research interest in the topic of complementary interventions to treat menstrual pain is increasing. In future research, researchers need information about trends and new things on complementary interventions to treat menstrual pain. Purpose The research aims to determine trends in the number of publications, journals with the highest number of publications, which fields receive the most publication permits, network visualization, overlay visualization, and density visualization on complementary topics related to intervention dealing with menstrual pain. Methods A search for publications on trends in complementary interventions to treat primary menstrual pain in adolescents resulted in 23,935 articles, four grants, 2,427 patents, and 42 clinical trials. After filtering through specified criteria, the number of articles obtained was 3,214, 249 patents, and 19 clinical trials. Results A search for publications on trends in complementary interventions to treat primary menstrual pain in adolescents resulted in 23,935 articles, four grants, 2,427 patents, and 42 clinical trials. After filtering through criteria such as publication year, research categories, publication type, published between 2018-2023, focus in the field of Health sciences, nursing, public health, clinical sciences, and article publication type were included as inclusion criteria of this study. The study obtained 3,214 articles, 249 patents, and 19 clinical trials. The peak of publications regarding trends in complementary interventions to treat primary menstrual pain in adolescents occurred in 2018. Meanwhile, the lowest number was in 2023. Research on complementary intervention trends to overcome primary menstrual pain in adolescents is in medicine, public health, nursing, and other fields such as trade management, tourism and services, human society, law, and legal studies. In addition, there is currently a trend for complementary therapy interventions to treat menstrual pain. Complementary therapies that are still rarely researched are progressive muscle relaxation therapy or herbal ginger to ease menstrual pain. Apart from that, progressive muscle relaxation therapy can also be used to treat anxiety in teenagers who experience menstrual pain, or the ginger herb has rarely been researched to treat menstrual pain. Conclusion Trends regarding complementary therapy interventions to treat menstrual pain need a review to find relevant alternative interventions for adolescent development and current digital developments. It is suggested that the next researcher choose a low visualization category theme to look for novelties in further research, one of which is ginger herbal therapy to overcome menstrual pain or interventions to overcome adolescent anxiety when experiencing menstrual pain.