EFEKTIFITAS EDUKASI DALAM PENCEGAHAN DAN PENGENDALIAN HIPERTENSI

Hypertension is one of the most important health problems that cause death in the world so it needs to be a concern to improve hypertension management for sufferers. Prevention and hypertension control can be done in various ways one of them through education. This study aims to study the effectiveness of education on prevention and hypertension control. This study conducted a systematic literature review method with descriptive analysis. Articles obtained from online databases namely EBSCOhost, PubMed, sciencedirect, Google scholar, and published from 2016-2020. The results of studies identify that research on hypertension prevention are much smaller than the hypertension control, besides that education was effective for prevention and hypertension control associated with increased knowledge, attitude, and decrease in blood pressure, but not all result was significant effect on decreasing blood pressure. Modification or combination of education with various methods, media, and related topics may be needed and the need for more research related to hypertension.
Keywords: education; hypertension; prevention and hypertension control