The Correlation of Sleep Quality and Physical Activity with Blood Pressure of Patients at Sei Langkai Community Health Center, Batam Island, Indonesia

Medicine

Introduction: High blood pressure is a serious medical condition and can increase the risk of heart, brain, kidney and other diseases. Sleep disturbance is a factor that affects the development of cardiovascular disease. For instance, physical activity that is carried out regularly causes many changes; the heart will get stronger in the muscles so that the capacity becomes large and the heart rate becomes strong and regular, or measured. Moreover, the elasticity of blood vessels will increase due to relaxation and vasodilation, so that fat piles will decrease and increase contractions of the muscle walls of these veins. Method: The research method was analytic observation with a cross-sectional. The sample in this research used a Finite-formula, and the total sample was 69 people. Data was collected by using a global physical activity and sleep quality questionnaire. The data obtained was analyzed by using the chi-square test. Results: The research results showed there were 26 people (63,4%) who had good sleep quality with normal blood pressure and 8 people (28,6%) had bad sleep quality with high blood pressure on hypertension grade 1 and 11 people (39,3%) on hypertension grade 2. It obtained a p-value of 0.000. It means that there was a correlation between sleep quality and blood pressure. While the results of the analysis on the correlation of physical activity and blood pressure obtained that 1 patient (5%) did heavy physical activity and had hypertension grade 1 and hypertension grade 2. It obtained a p-value of 0.001. It means there was a correlation between physical activity and blood pressure. Conclusion: There was a correlation between sleep quality and physical activity with the patients' blood pressure in the working area of Sei Langkai Community Health Center.

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