Prevention of Hypertension Disease through Increasing Perceived Threat on Indonesian Migrant Workers in Malaysia: Health Education Based Health Believe Models

Abstract

Migrant workers are a group that is vulnerable to health problems, especially diseases related to the cardiovascular system, one of which is hypertension. To overcome this problem, prevention programs are needed through increasing the perception that the disease is a severe and serious disease so that it is motivated to take preventive measures. Community service activities carried out to groups of Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) in Malaysia. The purpose of the activity is to increase the perception that the impact of hypertension can pose a fatal threat to health. The community service method is carried out by conducting health education online (in  the internet-online network) through the lecture method made in mp.4 video format. The results of community service activities were carried out in the form of health education with an online  lecture method to 113 Indonesian migrant workers in Malaysia. The topic of counseling is to explain how hypertension is a serious and vulnerable disease in migrant workers, and continued with how to prevent the disease. Health education to increase perceived threats based on health belief models can be an option in preventing the incidence of hypertension in migrant workers in Malaysia