The Effect of Ergonomic Exercises and Quranic Murottal on Blood Pressure in Elderly Patients with Hypertension in the Tuban Community Health Center Working Area

Abstract

Blood pressure is the pressure exerted by blood flow on the walls of the arteries, uncontrolled blood pressure can cause various health problems such as hypertension, heart disease, and stroke. Non-pharmacological therapy to support pharmacological therapy is ergonomic gymnastics and Al-Quran murottal therapy. The purpose of the study was to determine the effect of ergonomic gymnastics and Al-Quran murottal on blood pressure in elderly people with hypertension in the Widang Health Center work area. The research design used a pre-experiment with a one group pre-post test approach. The study population was 114 respondents with a simple random sampling technique into 53 samples. The intervention was given 4 times for 2 weeks. The research media used SOP and video, research data was taken using a general data questionnaire. The results showed that before the intervention, systolic had an average value of 148.199, after the intervention, systolic had an average value of 126.79 with a difference of 21.32. It was found that diastolic before had an average value of 92.45, after the intervention diastolic had an average value of 82.83 with a difference in average value of 9.62. The results of the Wilcoxon signed rank test with a significance value of p-value = 0.000 where P <0.05 means that there is an effect of the intervention. Based on the results of this study, it is expected that respondents have the motivation to do ergonomic gymnastics and Al-Quran murottal independently to maintain comfort and lower blood pressure.