SHOPI (Sosialisasi Pencegahan Hipertensi): Building Community Resilience Against Hypertension in Banyuwangi, Indonesia

This community service was aimed at increasing knowledge to preventhypertension by utilizing the role of mother cadres of PKK, which stands for Pemberdayaandan Kesejahteraan Keluarga, a hamlet/village-level association focusing on family welfareand empowerment. These cadres are representatives of neighborhood associations (RT/Rukun Tetangga) in the village area. This community empowerment was held throughcounseling lectures. This activity was carried out in 2022; the data, which were theparticipants’ responses, were collected using pretest and post-test questionnaires. Thesampling was carried out using accidental sampling with a cross-sectional design. Thisactivity targeted 30 PKK mothers as representatives from each neighborhood in KarangrejoVillage, Banyuwangi Regency. This empowerment increased the knowledge of the targetcommunity regarding the prevention of hypertension by 22.7 points. The average score ofthe participants’ pretest was 52.26, and that of the post-test was 74.96. This is in line withstudies that found that community service activities carried out using the roles of cadresand the elderly showed optimal results in increasing the target communities’ knowledge inthe operation of tensimeters and measuring blood sugar, uric acid, and cholesterol as wellas increasing knowledge of cadres and the elderly in hypertension management, and dietarymanagement of hypertension. The SHOPI Project (Education on Hypertension Prevention)effectively enhances public awareness regarding hypertension prevention, with a focus onwomen from the PKK community in Karangrejo Village, Banyuwangi Regency.