PENGARUH SLOW DEEP BREATHING TERHADAP PENURUNAN TEKANAN DARAH PADA LANSIA DI DESA PANDANREJO KECAMATAN PAGAK KABUPATEN MALANG

Background: In accordance with life expectancy increases, people will have possibility to get degenerative disease as hypertension. The change of cardiovascular can cause the improvement of blood pressure which leads to hypertension on elderly. One method that can be done in reducing the level of hypertension is using slow deep breathing exercise. Furthermore, this research is aimed to investigate the effect of slow deep breathing towards blood pressure reduction on elderly in Pandanrejo Village, Pagak District, Malang Regency. Research Methodology: This research employed Pre-experimental with one group pretest post-test design that involved 35 respondents that was taken by using purposive sampling as the sample collection technique. Latterly, the collected data was analyzed by using Wilcoxon test. Findings: The analysis result of doing slow deep breathing intervention during 5-10 minutes in a day during 2 weeks as well as the Wilcoxon test using a case group was resulting significant value on the reduction of blood pressure with the value of sig.(2-tailed) = 0,000 or p