Self-Management Pada Lansia Penderita Hipertensi Di Desa Tanak Beak Wilayah Kerja Puskesmas Narmada: Self-Management for Elderly People Suffering from Hypertension in Tanak Beak Village, Narmada Health Center Working Area

Heni, Baik Heni Rispawati
Ernawati
Supriyadi
Riskawaty, Heny Marlina

Jurnal Abdi Kesehatan dan Kedokteran
Vol 2 No 2 (2023): Jurnal Abdi Kesehatan dan Kedokteran

Hypertension is also known as the "Silent Killer". Someone is said to be hypertensive if systolic blood pressure is often found ≥ 140 mmHg and diastolic pressure ≥ 90 mmHg. In this service, it aims to find out how the community in the village of Tanak Beak, Narmada sub-district, regarding self-efficacy and self-management in elderly people with hypertension in Tanak Beak Village, the work area of the Narmada Health Center, Kab, West Lombok. The low level of self-management in elderly people with hypertension who receive long-term treatment is due to lack of knowledge and boredom, so the treatment program is not successful. Elderly with hypertension who do not have good faith and lack self-care management, causing further complications. The method used in this service is to identify people who have hypertension, then check their blood pressure and provide material related to self-efficacy and self-management. In this service, 62 respondents were found to have hypertension, and after being given counseling about self-efficacy and self-management, the community understood how.