PEMBERDAYAAN KELUARGA MENJADI KELUARGA TANGGAP HIPERTENSI (LUGAS) DI DUSUN DURMO, DESA BANTUR, KECAMATAN BANTUR

Abstract

Hypertension is one of number one causes of death in the world. The prevalence of hypertension has increased every year along with increasing age, level of education, non-working status and high level of per capita expenditure. Malang Regency is one of the regions in Indonesia with the number one of hypertensive patients. Completion of hypertension problems in Malang Regency until now has not met the 100% target. The lowest coverage achievement in Bantur District is in Bantur Village. This community service program aims to improve coverage by increasing family knowledge. Knowledge about health problems will affect the ability and independence of the family to become a hypertensive responsive family through socialization, counseling, and training given to families. Community service is carried out using 5 stages and methods, namely problem identification stage, needs analysis stage, program preparation stage, program implementation phase, and evaluation monitoring stage. The results of community service showed that the target families of 40 families were able to carry out five good family health tasks

Keywords: empowerment, family, responsive, hypertension