| Summary: | Hypertension is one of chronic diseases, so a hypertension patients always
need drugs to control her/his blood pressure for the rest of her/his life. The use of
drugs in a long term might cause the patient indiscipline in taking the drugs.
Uncontrolled blood pressure might cause some diseases such as coronary heart
disease, infarct heart disease, stroke, kidney failure and damages in blood-vessels.
The damages in human body cause the high level of death.
To investigate the effect of a pharmacist counseling toward the achievement
target of < 140/90 mmHg blood pressure on a non-diabetes mellitus hypertension
patients and < 130/80 mmHg blood pressure on patients with diabetes mellitus who
are being outpatients of RSUD Saras Husada Purworejo.
This was an experimental research. The subjects of the research were
randomly selected and were divided into intervention group (that received a
pharmacist counseling) and control group (without a pharmacist counseling). The
data collecting was done through interviews, questionnaires filling, and blood
pressure measurement at the beginning and end of the research.
There were 94 subjects who had involved in the research from the beginning
to the end, consisted of 46 (48.9%) of control group and 48 (51.1%) of intervention
group. Both non-diabetes mellitus hypertension patients and with diabetes mellitus
hypertension patients who had received a pharmacist counseling, there was a
significant decrease in the blood pressure and the attaining of blood pressure target.
The results showed that a pharmacist counseling had a significant effect
toward the achievement target of < 140/90 mmHg blood pressure on the non-diabetes
mellitus hypertension patients (p = 0.000) and < 130/80 mmHg on the hypertension
patients with diabetes mellitus (p = 0.001)
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