Abstract
Old age is the age at which risk of degenerative diseases such as hypertension. Hypertensive disease if not treated immediately can be fatal to the sufferer, one of the efforts to lower blood pressure in people with hypertension by doing music therapy. Music is able to clear the mind and the sound of music is able to create physical forms that affect our health, awareness, and everyday behavior. The power of music that is a powerful source of emotional healing to ward off negative forces and increase positive power. The purpose of this research is to know the blood pressure before and after being given music therapy in elderly with hypertension in Working Area of Puskesmas KTK Kota Solok. This research design is quasi experiment with One group pretest post test design with 18 samples with Purposive sampling technique. The result showed that the difference of blood pressure before and after classical music therapy in elderly with mild hypertension was obtained p-value = 0,001 (<0,05), in elderly with moderate hypertension, p-value = 0,023 (<0,05 ). This number indicates that there is influence between systolic blood pressure before and after classical music therapy whereas in severe hypertension we get p-value = 0,175 (˃0,05). This figure shows that there is no influence between systolic blood pressure before and after classical music therapy. Keywords :music theraphy, elderly, hypertension, blood pressure.
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