Effective Biomassage Method Lowers Blood Pressure In Hypertensive Menopausal Women At Pukesmas Denpasar Barat II Denpasar Bali

Abstract

The main problem of menopausal women is hypertension because  in menopause  the hormone estrogen is decreasing, cholesterol levels increase then arthrosclerosis occurs and blood vessels are damaged. Hypertension  is one of the entrances to heart disease, kidney failure, diabetes, stroke and the global prevalence of 22% of the world's population, in Indonesia in 2018 is 34.11%.  , in Bali 21% and Denpasar City 26.23%.  Overcoming this problem besides conventionally needed another method to solve the problem of hypertension, namely biomassage massage.  . The purpose of the study was to find out whether biomassage massage is effective in lowering blood pressure in menopausal hypertension.  This research method is true experimental method with pretest-postest control group design; The sample of 66 people with simple random techniques was divided into two, one experiment and one control. Analysis before and after treatment was carried out normality test, the results were all variables normally distributed for systole so that hypothesis testing with t test and abnormal on diastole so that the analysis used vicoxson and the results there were significant differences before and after treatment with sig values of 0.00 < 0.05.with a systole difference rank of 7 mmH and Diastole 4 mmHg. It was concluded that there was a significant difference before and after the Biomassage procedure. It is recommended in overcoming hypertension, besides conventionally with drugs need to be supplemented with biomassage massage education.