HUBUNGAN LAMA MENDERITA HIPERTENSI DENGAN TINGKAT KECEMASAN PADA LANSIA DI UPT WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS PURI DUSUN KARANGNONGKO DESA BALONGMOJO

Abstract

The problem of disease that accompanies the aging process of the elderly, one of which was hypertension. In the phenomenon that often occurs in society, many elderly people experience anxiety due to physical disorders that occur one of which was hypertension. This study aims to correlate long-suffered hypertension with anxiety levels in the elderly. Correlation analytic research design with cross sectional approach. The population in this study were all the elderly who had hypertension in Karangnngko Hamlet, Balongmojo Village, Puri District, Mojokerto Regency with a total of 46 people. The sampling technique of this research was simple random sampling. The sample in this study amounted to 27 people. The research instrument used the HARS questionnaire. Analysis of data using Spearman Rho. The results of this study suggested that almost half the respondents have suffered from hypertension for 6-10 years, as many as 11 people (40.8%), the majority of respondents experienced moderate levels of anxiety, as many as 14 people (51.9%). Spearman Rho test analysis results obtained pvalue = 0,000 with α = 0.05, so that H1 was accepted, meaning that there was a long association with hypertension with anxiety levels in the elderly in Karangnongko Hamlet, Balongmojo Village, Puri District, Mojokerto District. The longer a person suffers from hypertension, the higher the anxiety felt. This is because because the longer suffering from hypertension will lead to the belief that the disease is getting worse because it has been a long time suffered but does not heal, moreover this hypertension disease will increasingly damage the blood vessel system which will cause greater fear of death and more complications of hypertension.