PENURUNAN TEKANAN DARAH DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN TEHNIK NAFAS DALAM (DEEP BREATHING) PADA PASIEN HIPERTENSI DI PUSKESMAS BENDOSARI KABUPATEN SUKOHARJO

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Abstract: Deep Breathing Technicm, Decreasing Blood Pressure, Hypertention. Hypertention is called Silent Killer because  it is included in the diseases resulting in patient death without sign and symptom as a signal for sufferer (Wolf, 2006). One of non pharmacologic treatment to decreasing blood pressure for hypertention patient is deep breathing technic that can be done independently, easily, and not time consuming for therapy, and can minimize negative effect of pharmachologic therapy for hypertention. The purpose of this research is to identify the decreasing of blood pressure by using deep breathing technic in hypertention patient in Bendosari Public Health Centre in Sukoharjo District. The advantage of this research is to enhance ability of hypertention patient about deep breathing technic in order to decreasing blood pressure. Pre experimental method with One Group Pretest-Posttest design and Purposive Sampling technic was utilized in this research to identify the influence of deep breathing technic in decreasing blood pressure of hypertention patient (Notoatmojo, 2005).  The data was analyzed with paired t-test by using SPSS (Statistical Program For Social Science).The result shows that there is significant effect of deep breathing in decreasing blood pressure in hypertention   patient in Bendosari Public Health Centre in Sukoharjo District with p value =0,000