FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN KONTROL HIPERTENSI PADA LANSIA DI POS PELAYANAN TERPADU WILAYAH KERJA PUSKESMAS MOJOSONGO BOYOLALI

Abstract

The increase of hypertension cases every year generally becomes main problem in both developing and developed countries. The aim of the research was to investigate whether there was correlation among elders attitude, family supervising and elder’s knowledge with the effort of hypertension control in elderly people. This research was an observational study with cross sectional design. The subjects of the research were 70 elderly people at Posyandu (Pos Pelayanan Terpadu or Integrated Health Service Post) in Mojosongo Boyolali. Simple Random Sampling was the technique which was used in this research. The analysis used statistic Chi Square test (÷ 2 ) with the level of significant á=0,05. The result of this research showed that there were correlations among attitude (p=0,000), family supervising (p=0,016), and knowledge (p=0,003) with the effort of hypertension control in elderly people at Posyandu in Mojosongo Boyolali.