Perbandingan Kepatuhan Diet Pasien Penderita Hipertensi di Rumah dengan Penderita Hipertensi yang Menjalani Hospitalisasi di Rumah Sakit Umum Padang Sidimpuan

Compliance is a term that describes the use of drugs or food in accordance with the instructions covering the time and restrictions on the prevailing foods. Dietary compliance can also prevent the onset of complications in patients. Efforts to implement hypertension disease control need an understanding of the management of hypertensive disease at home, high motivation of the patient to carry it out and assistance by the people around him. The type of this study is Descriptive comparative. The population in this study were all hypertensive patients treated in Padangsidimpuan City General Hospital and returned home, with an average of 40 people per month, taken by purposive sampling with 30 people. Data was collected by using Bivariate Analysis using wilcoxon test with 95% accuracy (0,05). The results of this study obtained pvalue (0.011) <0.05 so that Ho is rejected and Ha accepted, meaning there is a significant difference between diet compliance hypertensive patients. Suggested For the respondents Increase knowledge about diet compliance in patients with hypertension at home or who underwent hospitalization