Abstract
Introduction: Hypertension is a non-communicable disease that affected on health in the adult age group. Acupressure therapy that can improve blood circulation for people with hypertension. Acupressure therapy can be an alternative treatment option to lower blood pressure and can meet the needs of society in reducing pharmacological therapy. The study was to determine the effect of Acupressure on changes in blood pressure of hypertension sufferers.Method: This study used pre-experimental design. The number of respondents was 15 people with consecutive sampling technique. The research variable is acupressure therapy. While the dependent variable is blood pressure. The data collected are primary data using observation sheets and blood pressure measured with a tensimeter and a stethoscope before and after the intervention. Therapy is done 3 times for 3 three days.Results: The results of the study showed that there was an effect of changes in blood pressure before and after being given acupressure therapy with p = 0.046 and p = 0.003.Conclusion: Acupressure is a simple non-invasive technique that nurses can perform independently. These findings suggest that acupressure can reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients with hypertension. The further research regarding acupressure therapy for other diseases besides hypertension.
Highlights
Hypertension is a non-communicable disease that affected on health in the adult age group
Acupressure is a simple non-invasive technique that nurses can perform independently. These findings suggest that acupressure can reduce systolic and diastolic blood pressure in patients with hypertension
Characteristics Of Respondents based on Gender, Age, occupation are described as follows: Table 1 show that 53% of respondents who suffer from hypertension were women, 15% of respondents who were willing to take part in the study, with the age division of 35-40 years amounting to 27%, 40-45 years old 33%, and 45-50 years old 40%
Summary
Hypertension is a non-communicable disease that affected on health in the adult age group. Acupressure therapy that can improve blood circulation for people with hypertension. The study was to determine the effect of Acupressure on changes in blood pressure of hypertension sufferers. Hypertension is a common disease and a major risk factor for coronary artery ischemia and stroke (Lin et al 2016). The development of complementary therapeutic medicine is currently in the spotlight in many countries considering that complementary or alternative medicine is an important part that must be in health services, several complementary therapies, one of which is acupressure therapy, which can improve blood circulation for people with hypertension (Martini, 2019). Hypertension has its own mechanism in a person's body, which is a very long process and can pose a number of risks (Insana, 2018)
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