Pain Management in Hypertension Through Pressure Point Massage

Abstract

Background: Hypertension is a disorder of the cardiovascular system characterized by increased blood pressure that causes pain in the back of the neck area. Giving a massage is one effort to reduce pain. This study was to determine the effect of pressure point massage on pain levels in hypertension. Methods: The design of this research was pre-experiment, involving 44 respondents by purposive sampling from 73 people with hypertension as a population. The dependent variable of pain level was measured using a pain scale, and the data was analyzed by paired t-test with α 0.05 Results: The results were a decrease in pain levels (pre-test 77.3% moderate pain and post-test 87% mild pain). The results of the data analysis using paired t-test were obtained p-value = 0.001 (