Systematic Review : An Effort to Improve Nursing Service Quality through Community Based Health Education for People with Hypertension
Sitti Johri Nasela (a*), Ronny A. Latumenasse (a), Cut Mutia Tatisina (a), Neti Juniarti(b), Mamat Lukman (b)
a Poltekkes Kemenkes Maluku, Maluku, Indonesia
*sitti16001[at]mail.unpad.ac.id
b Dept. Of Community Nursing, Faculty Of Nursing Padjadjaran University, West Java, Indonesia
Abstract
Essential hypertension is the most popular catastrophic case in Indonesia that referred from primary health services to hospitals. High number of morbidity and mortality caused by hypertension increase financial burden of the state for catastrophic diseases. The current effort of our government to prevent and control hypertension is by health promotion through KIE. However, the facts that hypertension prevention keep developing thus this would be a continuous global challenge for the professionals of health services. This is the reason why its important to investigate interventions that could increase control the blood pressure. The aim of this systematic review is to gain best literatures about health education about the prevention of hypertension based on community that have potential strength to regenerate clinical practice recommendations to improve preventive and promotive efforts for hypertension. Method of this literature review was using systematic searching of electronic databases from Google and Pubmed by following keywords : hypertension intervention strategies + journal, community based hypertension control programs that work + journal, hypertension AND community based health education, hypertension AND community-based nutrition DASH, hypertension AND community based control programs. Inclusion criterias of the study focused on community based education interventions for hypertension and has complete explanation about it whilst exclusion criteria of the study was all articles that older than the latest 10 years. 10 journals based on those criterias above chosen to proceed. Results of the study shows that all researches were done in developed countries and most of the articles were using quantitative methods. Community based health education for people with hypertension is an effort to help hypertension control programs. There are 4 (four) health interventions related to community based hypertension education program which are mass media campaign to reduce salt consumption, workshop programs through social volunteering or health activists, hypertension group education about dash and lifestyle then comprehensive hypertension prevention and promotive programs. Community based health education approaches through these interventions could be used to control the uncontrollable hypertension in the community. Multicomponent and multilevel cooperation as well as financially effective efforts to prevent, detect and managing hypertension could be gained by implementing all of these interventions.
Keywords: hypertension prevention and management, health education, community based programs
Topic: International Conference on Nursing