EFFORTS TO DECREASE BLOOD PRESSURE AND IMPROVE COMFORT

IN ELDERLY WITII HYPERTENSION TIIROUGII

KERONCONG MUSIC THERAPY

Erlin Kurnia, Aries Wahyuningsih, Srinalesti Mahanani

STIKES RS. Baptis Kediri
(email: stikes_rsbaptis@yahoo.co.id)

ABSTRACT

Elderly with severe hypertension may occur decreasing of consciousness and falling into
coma condition due to swelling of the brain, if it is not treated properly, it will cause dead.
The objective is to analyze the influence of keroncong music therapy toward decreasing blood
pressure and improve comfort. The research design was pre experiment (One Group Pre-Post
Test Design). Population was all elderly with hypertension. The subjects were 24 respondents
who met with inclusion and exclusion criteria using purposive sampling. The data blood
pressure were collected using mercury sphygmomanometer, comfort were collected using
General Comfort Questionnaire, and then analyzed using statistical test with significance
value a <0.05. The result showed that mean systolic blood pressure was decrease 12.00 mmHg
and mean diastolic blood pressure was decrease 9.08 mmHg. Statistical test Paired T-test
showed that keroncong music therapy had influence (5 octave; 750-3000 Hertz) to decrease
systolic blood pressure (p = 0.000) and diastolic blood pressure (p = 0.000) blood pressure,
mean of decreasing systolic blood were 12,00 mmHg and mean of decreasing diastolic blood
were 9,08 mmHg. The comfort scale is 14 respondents have transedence scale and 10
respondents have ease scale. In conclusion, that there is influence of keroncong music therapy
toward decreasing blood pressure significantly and improve comfort to elderly with
hypertension. So that, keroncong music therapy is recommended to elderly with hypertension
to decrease blood pressure and improve comfort:

Keywords: Keroncong Music Therapy, Blood Pressure, Comfort, Elderly

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