Abstract
Introduction: Heart disease is the number one cause of death in Indonesia. Promotional efforts through the provision of health education and counselling through Peer Health Education is one of the primary prevention strategies that can be undertaken to prevent the occurrence of heart disease. The purpose of this study is to prove the influence of Peer Health Education in reducing the risk of heart disease.Methods: The research method used in this study was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test non-equivalent control group design. The samples were taken from 56 people using the purposive sampling technique. The first group of 28 people was the experimental group and the second group of 28 people was the control group. Before and after treatment, both groups were measured concerning their knowledge, lifestyle behaviour, blood pressure, blood glucose levels, blood cholesterol levels and risk assessment of heart disease. Data analysis was done by using the Friedman Test with a 95% significance level.Results: The results showed that Peer Health Education was able to improve the respondents' knowledge about having a healthy lifestyle, changing the behaviour of the respondents, i.e. behaviour of consuming sweet foods, controlling blood pressure and decreasing the risk of heart disease.Conclusion: Based on the result, health promotion efforts through a Peer Health Educator can continue to be done as one method to improve heart health in the community. Thus, the expectation of morbidity and mortality due to heart disease can be lowered.
Highlights
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in Indonesia
The results showed that Peer Health Education was able to improve the respondents' knowledge about having a healthy lifestyle, changing the behaviour of the respondents, i.e. behaviour of consuming sweet foods, controlling blood pressure and decreasing the risk of heart disease
It was found that there was no knowledge difference between the first measurement and the measured knowledge two weeks after the first measurement with a p- value of 0.172. This is in accordance with the results of the study listed in Table 2, which explains that there is a significant difference in the knowledge of a healthy lifestyle to prevent heart disease in the experimental group and the control group with a p-value of 0.034
Summary
Heart disease is the number one cause of death in Indonesia. Promotional efforts through the provision of health education and counselling through Peer Health Education is one of the primary prevention strategies that can be undertaken to prevent the occurrence of heart disease. Based on the basic health research data conducted by the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia in 2013, it is known that the prevalence of coronary heart disease in Indonesia in 2013, based on doctor/symptom diagnosis, is 1.5% of the total population or about 2,650,340 people. In this data, it is known that most patients come from the East Java Province with a total of 375,127 people. Based on the doctor's diagnosis, East Java Province is the region with the highest number of 42 | pISSN: 1858-3598 eISSN: 2502-5791 heart failure patients in Indonesia (Center for Data and Information Ministry of Health, Indonesian Republic, 2014)
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