effect of mindfulness meditation on blood pressure on elderly with hypertension at the elderly Posyandu

Abstract

Hypertension is a disease that many people suffer from that can cause other, more dangerous health problems such as rupture of blood vessels in the brain and heart, resulting in death. According to WHO data, the coverage of hypertension reaches 1.13 billion. The management of hypertension is still dominated by pharmacological therapy. As for reducing this complexity, experts apply complementary therapies. Complementary therapy is a complementary therapy of conventional therapy for healing. One of the complementary nursing therapies that is easy to do to lower blood pressure is through meditation. Of the several types of meditation, there is one type of meditation that is closely related to human psychology, namely Mindfulness Meditation. So this study aims to prove the effect of Mindfulness Meditation on Blood Pressure in Elderly With Hypertension (In the Elderly Posyandu, Dukuh Village, Gondang District, Tulungagung Regency). The research design used was One Group Pre Test-Post Test with a cross sectional approach where the research subjects were only observed once and measurements were made on the subject variables at the time of examination.