| Summary: | ABSTRACT
Data of SKRT (1995) showed that hypertension positioned as the first prevalence sequence of various degenerative diseases in Indonesia. The increase of morbidity of hypertension disease caused by daily life behavior, that is, high calorie, high fat, high cholesterol, and high natrium eating behavior. Social support from friends and family is an asset for health that could improve the health status. In addition, health education is a factor that could create community changes from level of awareness to level of improving knowledge, changing attitude and finally to change behavior. The aim of this research was to know the influence of giving health education that was done by group discussion and speech methods in family members and the influence of social support in hypertension sufferers so that knowledge, attitude and eating behavior of hypertension sufferers can be improved.
This was a quasi experiment research of Non Equivalent Control Group Design with Pre Test and Post Test. The subjects of this research were family members of hypertension sufferers who were given health education with group discussion and speech methods. This research was located in Jogjakarta. The instrument being used was questioner that aimed to know the level of knowledge, attitude of family members regarding hypertension and eating behavior as well as social support toward hypertension sufferers before and after given health education. T-test was used to know the mean difference of knowledge, attitude, and eating behavior between treatment and control groups while chi square test was used to analyze social support.
Results showed that the improvement knowledge regarding hypertension prevention was higher in group discussion rather than speech group. The improvement attitude value regarding hypertension prevention in-group discussion was higher than speech group. There was no difference of eating behavior of hypertension sufferers who were given health education with group discussion method and speech method. There was a difference of social support of family members in-group that was given health education through group discussion method with speech method, In summary, health education through group discussion was better in improving knowledge and attitude of family members regarding hypertension and its prevention rather than speech group. Eating behavior of hypertension sufferers was better in group discussion, as well as social support that were given from family members for hypertension sufferers.
Keywords: health education - group discussion - speech - hypertension - social support
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