THE CORRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF EFFICACY AND COMPLIANCE OF LOW SALT DIET IN THE ELDERLY WITH HYPERTENSION IN WORKING AREA OF JELBUK HEALTH CENTRE

BACKGROUND : Self-efficacy is an individual's belief in his ability to organize and perform the specific tasks required to get results as expected. Compliance is the extent to which a person's behavior is committed to a therapeutic regimen that has been agreed with a health care provider. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation of self efficacy with low salt diit adherence in elderly hypertension in Jelbuk District Jember Working Area. SUBJECT AND METHODE : This research use correlation research design with cross sectional approach. The population in this study were 746 elderly with hypertension, with purposive sampling technique and proportional sampling with inclusion criteria and exclusion criteria were obtained as many as 149. RESULTS : The result of hypertension elderly with high self efficacy was 85.2%, low self efficacy 14.8%. Low salt with obedient 75.8%, low salt diit adherence with non-adherence 24.2%, self efficacy in good category and obdient in low-salt diit equal to 86,6%, whereas self efficacy less with low salt diit compliance in adherence category 13,6% using Chi Square analysis obtained p value 0.000 which means H1 accepted which means there is a relationship of self efficacy with low salt diit compliance. CONCLUSION : In conclusion there is a relationship of self efficacy with adherence of low salt diit in elderly hypertension In Work Area Puskesmas Jelbuk Jember regency. It is expected that elderly increase self efficacy so that they coul run in low-salt diit.