GAMBARAN PENGETAHUAN TENTANG HIPERTENSI PALANSIA YANG MENGALAMI HIPERTENSI DI DUSUN PENJALINWAKUL

Abstract

Hypertension is a condition in which one’s blood pressure is above 120/80 mmHg. Diet is one of the ways to lower the hypertension in the elderly. However, many of them sometimes do not obey their hypertension diet due to their own lack of knowledge. The objective of this research is to investigate the correlation between knowledge and hypertension diet obedience in the elderly with hypertension at Dharma Bakti Kasih Nursing Home of Surakarta. This research used the descriptive correlational approach with the cross sectional design to 35 hypertension respondents. The samples of research were taken by using the total sampling technique. The results showed that 17 people (48.6%) had good knowledge, most of them knew about the definition of hypertension, causes of hypertension, signs and symptoms of hypertension, complications of hypertension, prevention of hypertension, and hypertension diet. This is caused by several factors, namely education. Most of the respondents have a high school education level of 17 people (48.6%) so that the higher a person's education level the more he or she has good knowledge. The second factor is the age where the respondent has an age of 60-70 years (65.7%) so that the older a person is the wiser, the more information he finds and the more things he does so as to increase his knowledge, especially exposure to information from informal education from health workers regarding the disease. As for other factors, namely the work of some respondents, it is known that 27 people (77.1%) work so that the better the job, the easier it is for them to access or receive information about hypertension.