Hypertension is a serious problem in Indonesia. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between Healthy Living Community Movement (GERMAS) and the occurrence of hypertension at the age of 20-60 years in the Pahandut Public Health Center, Palangka Raya. In this research is an analytic observational study with a cross-sectional study design. The sample in this study was 110 respondents who came from the society in the working area of the Pahandut Health Center. The sampling technique used systematic random sampling. The data obtained came from a questionnaire and was tested for chi square using analysis through the SPSS application. The results in this study showed that the respondents GERMAS behavior was in the less category (60%) and with a history of hypertension (54.5%). The value means that there is a relationship between GERMAS behavior and the occurrence of hypertension (p = 0.003). There is a relationship between GERMAS behavior and the occurrence of hypertension at the age of 20-60 years in the working area of the Pahandut Public Health Center, Palangka Raya City.
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