Hubungan antara tingkat efikasi diri dengan sikap penderita hipertensi dalam pola diet rendah garam

Background: Hypertension self-care low salt diet that requires long-term care. It makes patients must be adapted with their new lifestyle. They need positive attitude for making adaptive coping mechanism while facing the obstacle. Self-efficacy can change mindset and attitude, so it can influence one's basic interests for forming a commitment to maintain self-care. Aim: Identify the relationship between self efficacy levels and attitudes in low-salt dietary patterns in hypertensive patients. Design: Quantitative descriptive correlative with cross-sectional approach. The sampling method is consecutive sampling with 158 respondents. Data collection using 2 questionnaires based on Albert Bandura and Allport theory that created by researcher that had been tested the validity and reliability Result: It shows that 53.2% of respondents have high self efficacy rate and 56.3% of respondents have positive attitude in low salt diet pattern. There is a significant relationship between self efficacy level and hypertension attitudes in low salt dietary pattern (p=0,000), meaning that person with higher effication level will have more positive attitude in low salt diet. Conclusion: This research is expected to be a recommendation for nurse to increase hypertension patient’s self efficacy to create positive attitude in low salt diet by giving intervention self-efficacy training that involve their family