Abstract:
Uncontrolled hypertension increase the incidence of stroke disease by 7 times, congestive heart
failure by 6 times, and heart attack by 3 times. About 74% elderly in Indonesia who from chronic
hypertension consumed pharmacological medicine during their life that had some adverse effects.
Therefore, nonpharmacological intervention such as simple yoga exercise can prevent the
complications in elderly. The objective of this research was to find out the The effectiveness of
yoga to decrease blood pressure in elderly with hypertension in Tresna Werdha Khusnul Khotimah
Nursing Homes Pekanbaru. The research design was quasi-experimental research by using pretestposttest
design with control group. Total sample were 34 respondents by using purposive sampling.
The research used univariat and bivariate analysis by using wilcoxson test to find out pretest result
of experimental and control group, mann-whitney test to find out posttest result of experimental and
control group. The results showed that the difference between systole blood pressure before
(pretest) and after (posttest) of experimental group was significant with p-value 0,000 and diastole
with p-value 0,000. Results also showed that mean rank systolic experimental group was 21,40
mmHg and 14,42 mmHg in control group with p-value 0,043 (<0,05), while that mean rank of
diastolic experimental group was 21,60 mmhg and 14,26 mmHg to the control group with p-value
0,033 (<0,05). It can be concluded that yoga intervention effective toward decreasing of blood
pressure in elderly with hypertension. This research recommends that yoga can be used as a therapy
to decrease blood pressure in elderly with hypertension.
