The Effect of Creambath Massage to Reduce Blood Pressure of Dinda Salon Costumers with Hypertension

Abstract

Introduction: Hypertension becomes a threat to community health because of its potentially to complications
condition. Sometimes hypertension sign and symptoms such as headache, shortness of breath, dizziness, chest pain,
heart palpitations and nasal bleeding, but not always. One of hypertension medications are non- pharmacological
or complementary therapy. As an example is massage blood pressure reduction hyperten- sion client. Methods:
Methods used is a research design pseudo treatment (quasy-experiment) with static- group comparison design
approach. The population 70 people. Sampling techniques using purposive sam- pling with a sample of 60 people.
Research instruments using SOP sheets massage creambath. The data was analyzed with a software application
using wilcoxon test with a confidence interval of 95% and α=0.05. Re- sults: Statistical test is known that there is
a significant influence between the action of massage creambath to decrease blood pressure Dinda Salon customers
who have hypertension with (p-value 0.000). Conclusion: There is a significant effect of massage creambath with
to reduce blood pressure of Dinda Salon customers who have hypertension. Recommendation: It is expected that
people with hypertension remain obedient in taking hypertension medications, stress management and routinely
undergo non-pharmacological therapy, especially massage creambath can be one of the options.