The Level of Knowledge Between the Habit of Medication Consumption and Disease - Hypertension for People Aged 40-60 in the Becora Community Health Center (2025)

Research Article

Abstract

Introduction: In the era of globalization, hypertension is a public health problem and basically worldwide. Global Health Observatory (GHO, 2024) estimates that hypertension is the cause of death among people, a total of 7.5 million or 12.8% have suffered from all diseases and estimates are made until 2026. Hypertension is a common public health problem in the Southeast Asian region and is the leading cause of cardiovascular disease.

Research Objectives: To find out about the level of knowledge and the relationship between the habit of consuming medications and hypertension disease for adults aged 40-60 years, in Becora Community Health Center, 2025.

Research Methodology: Use the quantitative analytical method with a cross sectional study approach, with the total population and sampling error of 10%, the sample needs to be 96 people and the respondents are 96. We use the questionnaire to collect and analyze using the SPSS computer program.

Discussion Results: The results of the calculation using the Chi-Square test in the SPSS program with the p- value between two variables, the result is (p-value; 0.038) is lower than the alpha value (0.050), meaning that there is a relationship between the habit of consuming medication and hypertension in adults of the age identified in the research carried out.

Conclusion: There is a relationship between the habit of consuming medication and hypertension disease for adults, as identified by 96 adults who attended a consultation at the Becora Community Health Center in the adult office room, which represents bad food consumption habits as 70.9% and respondents with the habit of currently sufficient medication consumption are 29.1%, based on the research result cited by (Tilman CB., et al, 2025).