Swedih Hipertensia PDF
Swedih Hipertensia PDF
ABSTRAK
ABSTRACT
The older the age is, it can cause the degrading of some physical or psychological
functions experienced by people as the effect of aging process. It also includes triggering
health problems in the elderly people. One of the degenerative disease that is mostly
experienced by the elders is hypertension which is a chronic disease caused by the lacking
of blood vessel’s wall elasticity as the effect of aging process. The Swedish massage
therapy is one of complementary therapy which is believed to be effective in giving the
relaxation responses and also to reduce the blood pressure. Then, it brought to a reseearch
where it was aimed to examine the effect of Swedish massage therapy to the changes of
blood pressure in elderly people “Mandalika” NTB. This research was using one group
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pre-post test design with 20 elderly people with hypertension as samples which were
selected by purposive sampling method. Data analyzing used was paired t-test with 0,05
(5%) signifance level. Based on the statistical test, t-count is 8,048 and was compared with
t-table on d.b =19, it had result on t-table 2,093.Thus, t-count > t-tablemeant that there
was an effect of Swedish massage therapy to the change of blood pressure in elderly
patients with hypertension. Based on this reseach,itcould be concluded that there was an
effect of Swedish massage therapy to the changes of blood pressure in elderly patients with
hypertension. Therefore, the Swedish massage could be used as an alternative care to help
in reducing blood pressure especially to the elderly people with hypertension.
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