Hubungan Konformitas dan Lingkungan Sosial Dengan Pencegahan Hipertensi Di Puskesmas Padang Bulan Medan

Abstrak

Conformity is a condition where a person changes attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs to be the same and accepted by other people or groups. The social environment is a medium in which living things live, seek a living, and perform certain functions related to the existence of these living things. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between conformity and the social environment with the prevention of hypertension at the Padang Bulan Health Center, Medan in 2024. This study used a method with the design used was correlational analytic using a cross-sectional approach which was carried out at the Padang Bulan Health Center, Medan. The population in this study was 1,228 respondents with a purposive sampling technique with a total of 93 respondents in October to December 2023. The instruments in this study were questionnaires on conformity, social environment, and prevention of hypertension. Data analysis in this study used the Spearman rank test. The results of this study indicate that most respondents (51.6%) have high conformity, respondents (91.4%) have a social environment in the good category, and (90.3%) have good hypertension prevention, so that the results of the Spearman rank statistical test obtained p-value = 0.002 and 0.000 (p <0.005). Therefore, there is a relationship between conformity and social environment with hypertension prevention at the Padang Bulan Medan Health Center in 2024. The suggestions in this study are expected to provide information on hypertension prevention and this study needs to be further developed regarding the factors that influence hypertension prevention related to conformity and the social environment, especially cultural factors.