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Hypertension is one of the noncommunicable
diseases which is still a major
problem around the world because of its
prevalence remains high and continues to rise.
Increasing prevalence of hypertension is caused
by many factors including lack of knowledge
about hypertension and unhealthy dietary
behavior. One of the eff ort to improve the
knowledge and dietary behavior is providing
health education with the use of electronic
media through utilization of educational blog.
Porpose: the aims of this study were to
determine the eff ect of the educational blog
about hypertension on the knowledge of
hypertensive and hypertension dietary behavior
of the patients in Wirobrajan Public Health Care
Center of Yogyakarta.
Method: This research used Quasi Experiment
with one group pre-post test design. The total
samples were 21 respondents that taken by
purposive sampling method. Statistical tests
that used was Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test
with signifi cance level p> 0.05 level to analyze
knowledge about hypertension and Paired t Test
to analyze dietary behaviors of hypertension.
Result: The results showed that there were
a signifi cant eff ect to the knowledge about
hypertension (Z=-3.639, p=0,00) and dietary
behavior of hypertension (t = -6,185, p =
0,00) after providing educational blog about
hypertension
Conclution:There were eff ects of educational
blog about hypertension on the knowledge
about hypertension and dietary behaviors
of hypertension of hypertensive patient in
Wirobrajan Public Health Care Center of
Yogyakarta.
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