The Factors That Are Related To Self-care Agency In Patients With Hypertension
Artikel Ilmiah
Published 2018
Ns. Dendy Kharisna, S.kep
KARYA ILMIAH
Uncontrolled hypertension leads to complex problems experienced by patient as the complication of the hypertension.
The patient’s ability to do self-care (self-care agency) is essential and recommended to control hypertension. Age,
sex, education, occupation, marital status, decision making, duration of hypertension, lifestyle, and insurance
availability are contributed to the self-care agency. Nurses and patients should be able to know and understand these
self-care agency related factors. The aim of this study was to identify self-care agency relating factors of hypertension
patients in Pekanbaru. This study conducted using a quantitative approach with cross sectional design and involving
100 hypertension patients who recruited using purposive sampling techniques. Self-care agency was measure using
exercise of self-care agency (ESCA) questionnare. Data were analyzed using Spearman test and Chi Square test to
determine the relation of each factors on self-care agency and multivariate logistic regression test to determine the
most related factors on self-care agency. The result showed that there were a significant different of age (p=0.048),
education (p=0.002), gender (p= 0.025), health insurance (p=0.027), and life style (p=0.003) with self-care agency.
Meanwhile, there were no signifcant different of occupation (p=1.000), decision making (p=0.800), marital status
(p=1.000), and duration of hypertension (p=0.567) with self-care agency. Multivariate analysis revealed that
the most influence factor for self-care agency is life style. This study suggest the nurses in improving self-care
agency of hypertension patients must concern about patient lifestyle and help patient to modify their lifestyle.
Keywords: Hypertension, patients, self-care agency