GAMBARAN GAYA HIDUP PENDERITA HIPERTENSI PADA MASYARAKAT PESISIR

Abstract

Coastal community behavior which was dominant in consume high sodium food and drink, smoking habit, alcohol and caffeine consumption, lack of physical activity, and stress could increase the risk of essential hypertension. This study aimed to identify the description of hypertention patient lifestyles in coastal communities in Mangkang Public Health Center working area. The study design used was descriptive with cross sectional approach. Population of this research were hypertension sufferers in coastal area of Mangkang, with total sampling technique got 119 samples. The results showed that majority of the respondents had bad lifestyle (60.5%), highlyexposured to cigarette smoke (52.9%), had bad eating and drinking habits (64.7%), and majority of respondents had stress (60.5%). While, majority of the respondents’ physical activity in category enough (53.8%). As the results shown, Mangkang Public Health Center or other public health services in the community should be able to conduct health education and healthcare services such as blood pressure check and exercises on a reguler basis. Keywords : Hypertension, Lifestyle, Coastal Communities References : 100 (2000-2017)