Pengaruh Terapi Relaksasi Meditasi terhadap Penurunan Tekanan Darah Pada Lansia dengan Hipertensi di Wilayah Binaan Rumah Sakit Emanuel Klampok Banjarnegara
Abstract: Hypertension of
elderly is a systolic pressure that is equal or more than 140 mmHg and/or
diastolic pressure that is equal or more than 90 mmHg. One of hypertension
managements is without drug where the result is more than just only overcoming
this disease but also prevent stroke and heart attack. By relaxed meditation
technique whole body will rest, physical will rest, mental will rest, and
improve the blood circulation to muscles so that the muscles tend to relax and
the blood pressure may reduce. This study on an elderly integrated services
post (Posyandu) in the region founded by Emanuel hospital at Kaliwinasuh
Village Klampok subdistrict Banjarnegara Regency, from November to December
2006, aimed to fiond out the effect of relaxed meditation therapy on reduction
of elderly blood pressure with hypertension.
This was a pre-experimental study without control group with a one group
pretest-posttest design. Sampling method used was total sampling. Respondent of
this study was 30 elderly people suffering hypertension. Data collecting tool
was a questionnaire (Indriyani, 2005), and observation was collected by
measuring blood pressure before and after relaxed meditation.
The results showed that that systolic blood pressure on the statistical
test indicated that P = 0.000 (P<0.05) meaning that H-a was accepted or
systolic blood pressure between before and after relaxed meditation can be
reduced significantly in amount of 7.67 mmHg. While diastolic blood pressure on
the statistical test showed P = 0.161 (P>0.05) meaning that H-a was rejected
or diastolic blood pressure between before and after relaxed meditation cannot
be reduced significantly. Result of the study showed that there is an effect of
relaxed meditation on reduction of systolic blood pressure, however it needs a
further study about this effect by using control group as comparative, or other
variables such as religion, marital status, socioeconomic level.
Penulis: Sudiarto, Rahayu
Wijayanti, Taat Sumedi
Kode Jurnal: jpkeperawatandd070015
