Relationship compliance with dietary approch to stop hypertension pattern with blood pressure in hypertension patients at Puskesmas Tulungagung, Tulungagung Regency

Abstract

Hypertension is a condition in which a person experiences an increase in blood pressure above normal. One of the recommended countermeasures for hypertension is a dietetic approach to stop hypertension or known as DASH. The purpose of the study was to analyze the relationship between DASH pattern adherence and blood pressure in hypertension patients at the Tulungagung Public Health Center. The research was conducted in April 2021. The type of research was correlation, analytical design with a cross sectional approach and the research instrument was a questionnaire. The population of the study was some hypertension patients at the Tulunagung Health Center. Samples were taken by purposive sampling technique of 30 respondents. The independent variable is DASH Diet Compliance, the dependent variable is hypertension. Data were analyzed by Spearman rho test. The results showed that the knowledge of DASH Pattern Compliance at the Tulungagung Health Center was more than half of the respondents who had the DASH Pattern Compliance at the Tulungagung Health Center in the obedient category as many as 17 respondents (56.7%). Blood Pressure in Hypertensive Patients at the Tulungagung Health Center most of the respondents had mild hypertension, as many as 10 respondents (23.3%).