Background : Hypertension is a condition when systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg and diastolic blood pressure  ≥ 90 mmHg blood. One of herbal therapies to help lowering blood pressure is by utilizing foods which contain high potassium, such as bananas, melons, and young coconut water.Objective : To analyze the effect of banana melon and young coconut water pudding on lowering blood pressure levels of hypertensive patients at the Palembang Public Health Center.Method : A quasi-experimental study with pre and pos test control group design. The subjects were 60 hypertensive patients at Palembah PHC who were eagerly fulfilled inclusion and exclusion criteria. Data analysis were used t-dependent and t-independent tests to analyze the effect of melon banana pudding and young coconut water with blood pressure.Results : The results showed there was an average decrease in systolic and diastolic blood pressure in the treatment group of 13.07 mmHg (p= 0.000) and 6.93 mmHg (p= 0,000). Consumption of banana melon pudding and young coconut water showed a significant effect on reducing 6.1 mmHg systolic blood pressure (p=0.003) and 4.56 mmHg diastolic blood pressure (p=0,000). T-independent test showed that systolic blood pressure in the treatment and control groups obtained p-0.005 and diastolic blood pressure obtained p-value 0.048.Conclusion : Consumption of banana melon pudding and young coconut water could lower blood pressure levels f hypertensive patients

Penderita tuberkulosis yang telah selesai pengobatan namun tidak melaksanakan periksa ulang dahak pada fase akhir pengobatan jumlahnya mencapai 117 orang (20% dari total penderita). Pengawas Minum Obat (PMO) mempunyai tugas untuk mengingatkan penderita agar melaksanakan periksaulang dahak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan peran PMO dengan kepatuhan periksa ulang dahak pada fase akhir pengobatan. Desain penelitian yang digunakan adalah kasus kontrol. Kasus adalah penderita tuberkulosis paru basil tahan asam (BTA) positif berumur > 15 tahun yang telah selesai mendapatkan pengobatan kategori 1 dan tidakmelakukan periksa ulang dahak pada bulan kelima atau akhir pengobatan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa secara statistik variabel confounder yaitu penyuluhan petugas dan pengetahuan penderita berhubungan bermakna dengan kepatuhan periksa ulang dahak pada fase akhir pengobatanpenderita tuberkulosis dewasa. Hasil multivariat dengan regresilogistik menunjukkan bahwa peran PMO yang kurang baik berisiko sebesar 3,013 kali untuk menyebabkan penderita tidak patuh periksa ulang dahak pada fase akhir pengobatan dibandingkan dengan penderita yang memiliki peran PMO baik (95% CI = 1,615-5,621) setelah dikontrol variabel penyuluhan petugas dan pengetahuan penderita.Kata kunci: Pengawas minum obat, periksa ulang dahak, tuberkulosisAbstractPatients with tuberculosis who had completed treatment but did not do sputum rechecking at the end of treatment phase reached 117 people (20% of total patients). The drug consumption supervisor has a duty to remind the patient to carry out sputum rechecking. This study aims to determine thecorrelation role of drug consumption supervisor with the compliance sputum rechecking at the end of treatment phase. The design study is case-control. Cases are positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients aged > 15 years who had completed a treatment category 1 and did not recheck the sputum at month 5 or the end of treatment. The results showed that statistically variable confounder knowledge of extension workers and patients correlated significantly with the compliance sputum rechecking at the end of treatment phase of adult tuberculosis patients. The results of multivariate showed logistic regretion that drug consumption supervisor’s role is less well having3,013 times the risk of causing the patient not adherent to recheck the sputum at the final phase of treatment compared to patients whose drug consumption supervisor role well (95% CI = 1,615 to 5,621) after the controlled variable extension officers and the knowledge of the patient.Key words: Drug consumption supervisor, sputum recheck, tuberculosis