Cucumber Juice As One Of The Strategies To Reduce Hypertension In 3-Month Injection Acceptors

Abstract

Injectable contraception is a type of hormonal contraception that contains progesterone. Side effects caused by excess estrogen and progesterone can cause changes in blood pressure. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Cucumber Juice on reducing hypertension in 3-month injectable acceptors. This research method is a quantitative study with a pre-experimental design type one group pretest-posttest. The population in this study was 3-month injectable birth control acceptors and experienced hypertension. sample of 15 acceptors. The analysis used was the Wilcoxon test. The results showed that the average systolic hypertension before and after being given cucumber juice obtained a p-value of 0.001 and diastolic blood pressure of 0.001, then Ha was accepted. it can be concluded that there is an effect of cucumber juice on reducing hypertension in 3-month injectable acceptors.