Abstract
Abstract: Hypertension is a condition of elevated abnormal arterial blood pressure that lasts persistently. Some knowledge that should be known by hypertensive patients are such as the meaning of hypertension, the cause of hypertension, the symptoms that come along, and the importance of regular and long term treatment, also knowing the dangers posed if not taking the medication. This study aims to determine the correlation between knowledge and adherence to taking antihypertensive medication in elderly hypertensive patients at the Krian Public Health Center, Sidoarjo Regency. In this study, the population was elderly hypertensive patients who examined themselves or only took control to take medication at the Elderly Polyclinic of Krian Public Health Center in Sidoarjo Regency with 332 populations with 75 samples taken. The result of this research was obtained sig. value = 0,000 (<0,05). This study used the Spearman Correlation statistical test in analyzing the data. From the results of this study it was concluded that there was a relationship between knowledge and adherence to taking antihypertensive medication in elderly hypertensive patients at the Krian Public Health Center, Krian District, this was proved by the acquisition of sig values. = 0,000 (<0.05). Keywords: knowledge, the adherence of taking medication, hypertension
Highlights
Hypertension is a condition of elevated abnormal arterial blood pressure that lasts persistently
The American Heart Association (AHA) defines someone categorized as having hypertension if they have systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg and / or diastolic pressure ≥ 90 mmHg.[1]
Saepudin et al (2011) showed that there was no relationship between gender and adherence taking medication in hypertensive patients.[8,9], this is because women and men alike had awareness in adherence taking hypertension medication
Summary
Hypertension is a condition of elevated abnormal arterial blood pressure that lasts persistently. The American Heart Association (AHA) defines someone categorized as having hypertension if they have systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg and / or diastolic pressure ≥ 90 mmHg.[1]. Therapy for hypertensive patients consists of pharmacological therapy and non pharmacological therapy. Pharmacological therapy can use drugs to reduce blood pressure. Non pharmacological thereapy can be done by modifying life style such as losing weight, stop smoking, avoiding alcohol, reducing stress, increasing excersice, and having enough rest.[1] Puspita (2016), about factors related to adherence in takin medication for hypertensive patients, showed that factors of education level, duration of hypertension, knowledge, family support, the role of health workers, gender motivation, employment status, participation of health insurance and affordability health insurance service.[4]
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