Prevalence of Hypertension and Predictive Factors of Self-Efficacy Among Elderly People with Hypertension in Institutional-Based Rehabilitation in Indonesia

Abstract

Aim: Identiication of hypertension factors among elderly people is expected to form appropriate nursing interventions to improve the self-eicacy of patients by modifying factors afecting the blood pressure of elderly people with hypertension. he aim of this study is to investigate the prevalence of hypertension and predictive factors of self-eicacy among elderly people with hypertension in institutionbased rehabilitation (IBR) in Indonesia. Methods: An IBR cross-sectional study was conducted, involving 64 elderly people selected through random sampling. Research data were

collected using a structured questionnaire and standard protocol, employing a stethoscope and sphygmomanometer to measure blood

pressure. he data were then analysed using descriptive and comparative statistics, as well as multivariate linear regression analyses. Results:

he prevalence of systolic and diastolic hypertension among elderly people who lived in the IBR were 31.30% and 45.30%, respectively. he predictors of self-eicacy of the elderly with regard to systolic hypertension were spiritual activity, length of stay, education, the occupation of the elderly before entering the rehabilitation, and dementia; while daily activities, risk of falling, pain, and depression anxiety and stress become signiicant predictors of self-eicacy in elderly people with diastolic hypertension. Conclusion: his study provides new evidence that signiies the current burden of hypertension and the critical factors of self-eicacy for uncontrolled hypertension among the elderly in the IBR. he study suggests that health-promotion programs should be developed to modify factors of hypertension among elders of IBR in Indonesia.