Counseling to Prolanis Participants about Diet for Hypertension

Hypertension is the main risk factor for death. Hypertension cases at the Puskesmas Ngemplak Simongan were included in the top 10 visits. The purpose of this study was to improve prolanis participant’s knowledge about diet for hypertension at the Puskesmas Ngemplak Simongan. This study was an experimental study with a pre-post test and conducted in May 2019 with the population in this study include all hypertension Prolanis participants as much as 30 participant. Data obtained by interviewing questionnaires pre and post intervention giving knowledge, then analyzed using a paired Ttest with p <0.05. The results showed that after an counselling there was an knowledge improvement of prolanis participants who were categorized as good, increasing from 53.6% to 86.7%. The mean value of knowledge in prolanis participants before and after the intervention also increased, from 74.31 to 86.27. The results of paired T test showed a significance increase in knowledge of prolanis participants after counselling (P <0.001). Giving counseling to prolanis participants could improve the knowledge related to the diet for hypertension. It is recommended that patients could manage their diet better to control blood pressure which accompanied to physical activity and adhere to taking the drug. Keywords— Hypertension, salt diet, knowledge, prolanis