Abstract

 
 
 
 Slow deep breathing exercise is a non-pharmacological therapy in hypertension patients without comorbidities that can reduce blood pressure. This study aimed to investigate the effect of slow deep breathing exercise on patients’ blood pressure with hypertension in working area of Kertosari Health Center Banyuwangi. This study used experimental design with One-Group Pre-test - Post-test. The sample consisted of 11 respondents who fit the inclusion criteria recruited from an observation sheet of blood pressure measurement using a digital sphygmomanometer, then processed by conducting scoring, tabulating and statistical analysis using Paired T-Test from SPSS 25 for windows. The average respondent's SBP (Systolic Blood Pressure) before SDB (slow deep breathing) was 162.82 mmHg and after SDB was 133.27 mmHg. The average DBP before SDB was 87.91 mmHg and after SDB was 80.09 mmHg. Further analysis used Paired T-Test found ρ value = 0.000, α = 0.05 or ρ value < 0.05. It can be concluded that there was a significant Effect of Slow Deep Breathing Exercise on Patients' Blood Pressure with Hypertension in Working Area of Kertosari Health Center Banyuwangi 2020.
 
 
 
Highlights
Hypertension is defined as systolic Blood Pressure (SBP) values more than 140 mmHg and diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP) values more than 90 mmHg [4]
Hypertension is a degenerative disease, which mean the blood pressure will increase by the adding of the age [3]
World Health Organization (WHO) said that there were around 972 million people or 26.4% of people who suffer from hypertension in 2013, from the total number of 333 million people are in developed countries and rest of them, 639 are in developing countries, including Indonesia [5]
Summary
Based on the stages of age development, most of respondents in this study were at the stage of development of intermediate adult (40-65 years old) as many as 7 respondents or 63.6%. The results of the analysis showed that as many as 63.6% or 7 respondents had a family history of suffering from hypertension, while respondents who did not have a family history of suffering from hypertension were 36.4% or 4 respondents. Majority of respondents have the habit of consuming salty foods as many as 90.9% or 10 respondents. The results of other analysis showed that the most of respondents said they liked to consume fatty foods, which were 9 respondents (81.8%). Other analysis showed that the most of the respondents were non-smokers as many as (72.7%) or 8. This was consistent with the previous analysis that the most of respondents of this study were female. This study showed that as many as 63.6% or 7 respondents did not have exercise habits
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