THE EFFECT OF DIET EDUCATION ON DIET COMPLIANCE IN HYPERTENSION PATIENTS IN THE WORKING AREA OF PUSKESMAS INSTITUTIONSIN KEMBANG MUMPO SELUMA DISTRICT IN 2020

Abstrak

The pattern of non-communicable diseases in Indonesia tends to increase and begins to threaten at a young age,
one of the non-communicable diseases is hypertension. According to data from the World Health Organization
(WHO) in 2015, nearly 1 billion people worldwide have high blood pressure. This study aims to see the effect of
diet education on dietary compliance in hypertension sufferers in the working area of the Kembang Mumpo
Puskesmas inpatient in Seluma Regency in 2020. The method used is the design used in this study is the Pre
Experimental Design (The One Group Pre Test-Post Test Design). The population in this study were aged 20-44
in 2019, totaling 113 people at the Kembang Mumpo Puskesmas inpatient in Seluma Regency and the sample
used was 23 respondents, with the sampling technique using purposive sampling technique. The results of the
univariate test analysis were obtained that most of the respondents (65.2%) were female, most of the respondents
(60.9%) had high school education, most of the respondents (56.5%) were farmers, most of the respondents
(65.2%) with the category of dietary adherence not adhering, before education was carried out, and most of the
respondents (56.5%) with the category of dietary adherence were obedient after education. While the bivariate
analysis test with the Paired T-test statistical test results obtained ? = 0,000 from ? ? 0.05. So it was concluded
that there was an effect of dietary education on dietary compliance in hypertensive patients in the working area
of the Kembang Mumpo Puskesmas in Seluma District. It is suggested to provide health education about the
hypertension diet so that it can further increase the knowledge of hypertensive patients about the implementation
of the hypertension diet which is useful for patients to control blood pressure to maintain the patient's health
status.