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Background: The Self Management Hypertension (SMH) application is a digital-based educational media solution to improve knowledge of elderly with HT in managing their disease independently, easy to use and can be accessed wherever they are. Smartphone -based digital technology, Recently, it has become a very common tool needed by most people, including the elderly, not only as a communication tool but can also be used as a medium for education and information. Research Objectives: This research aims to design the development of a prototype of the SMH application and to determine the feasibility of the SMH application for self-management of hypertension for the elderly. Method: The research method used is Research and Development (R&D). The research subjects for the expert validation test consisted of 3 experts. Meanwhile, the application trial subjects consisted of a one-on-one trial sample of 3 elderly people and a small group trial of 12 elderly people. Data collection uses the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) questionnaire which consists of 13 questions with 4 assessment aspects, namely the convenience aspect, usefulness aspect, trust aspect and user intention aspect. There are 4 Likert scale answer choices ranging from strongly agree to strongly disagree. Results: Expert validation results show the percentage and eligibility criteria are 86.6%. The results of one-on-one trials show that the ease of application aspect is in the range of 3.25-4.00, the usefulness aspect is in the range of 3.00-4.00, the trust aspect is in the range of 3.67-4.00 and the user intention aspect is in the range of 3.00-4. .00. Small group trials showed an average convenience aspect of 3.52, an average usefulness aspect of 3.53, an average trust aspect of 3.69 and an average user intention aspect of 3.64. Conclusion: The SMH application has decent content, is easy to use, very useful, and trustworthy, thereby increasing the intention of elderly people with HT to use the SMH application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hypertension is a non-communicable disease that causes public health problems, including workers. Exposure to hypertension risk factors can be influenced by the characteristics of the workplace, where workers spend most of their daily time. So it is necessary to prevent the high rate of hypertension in workers. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between health literacy and blood pressure of formal sector workers in PT X, Indonesia. This study is a quantitative study with a cross-sectional study approach to identify the risk of hypertension in workers, measure the blood pressure of workers for screening for sample determination with Diastolic Blood Pressure (TDD) of 120-139mmHg and Systolic Blood Pressure (TDS) of 80- 89mmHG, as well as self-efficacy behaviors and health literacy level. The population in this study was all workers in the PT X. The samples in this study were some of the workers in the PT X who represented the population under the established inclusion criteria. The sampling technique used was stratified random sampling. Data analysis was performed using the Chi-square test. The results show that there is a significant correlation between the variables of age, BMI, Self-Efficacy, and eating patterns (ρ < 0.05) with the blood pressure of workers. Also, there is a significant correlation between health literacy and blood pressure (ρ < 0.05) and there is a correlation between age and education level (ρ < 0.05) with health literacy. Thus, it is concluded in this study that, in general, it can be said that health literacy correlates to the blood pressure of workers in PT X, Indonesia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Hypertension is an unfinished health problem until now. Hypertension is a disease that causes stroke and decreases the quality of life. One of the preventable causes of hypertension is obese. The purpose of this study is observing the relationship between nutritional status, in this case obesity, and the incidence of hypertension in young adults (18-40 years) in Tomohon City. By utilizing a cross sectional approach, this research was conducted in January-December 2019 on young adults aged 18-40 years who visited 7 community health centers in Tomohon. There were 4,040 samples who were willing to be involved in this study, who had never previously been diagnosed with hypertension by a doctor in any health facility. Based on the Pearson's chi-square test showed a p-value of age and the incidence of hypertension is 0.0001 < 0.05 with estimated risk of 2.206 (CI 95%: 1.917-2.593). P-value of gender and the incidence of hypertension is 0.0001 < 0.05 with estimated risk of 0.715 (CI 95%: 0.622-0.823). P-value of obesity and the incidence of hypertension is 0.0001 < 0.05 with estimated risk of 2.502 (CI 95%: 2.150-2.911). So, it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between obesity and the incidence of hypertension [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]