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Perawat kesehatan masyarakat berperan dalam meningkatkan kemandirian masyarakat dalam kesehatan, termasuk dalam penanganan penyakit hipertensi. Begitu juga di wilayah kerja UPT Puskesmas Lima Kaum 1 Batusangkar, dimana masih tingginya temuan angka kejadian hipertensi yang memunculkan dugaan masih kurangnya peran perawat kesehatan masyarakat dalam penanganan penyakit hipertensi. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan peran perawat kesehatan masyarakat dengan kemandirian keluarga dalam penanganan penyakit hipertensi di wilayah kerja UPT Puskesmas Lima Kaum 1 Batusangkar tahun 2019. Jenis penelitian ini deskriptif analitik dengan pendekatan cross sectional study. Populasi pada penelitian sebanyak 93 orang dan pengambilan sampel menggunakan teknik random sampling dengan besaran sampel 64 orang. Pengumpulan data menggunakan kuisioner, analisis data meliputi analisis univariat dan analisis bivariat menggunakan uji chi-square. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan 54,7% responden menyatakan peran Perkesmas kurang baik dan 48,4% responden termasuk keluarga mandiri kategori 2. Ada hubungan antara peran perawat kesehatan masyarakat dengan kemandirian keluarga dalam penanganan penyakit hipertensi secara statistik didapatkan nilai p = 0,048. Disimpulkan bahwa peran perawat kesehatan masyarakat berhubungan dengan tingkat kemandirian keluarga dalam penanganan penyakit hipertensi. Diharapkan kepada pihak petugas kesehatan khususnya perawat kesehatan masyarakat untuk dapat lebih meningkatkan aplikasi maupun implementasi dari kegiatan perkesmas khususnya dalam upaya promotif dan preventif penyakit hipertensi.

Public health nurses play a role in increasing community independence in health, including in handling hypertension. Likewise in the work area of the Batusangkar Community Health Center Lima Kaum 1, where there are still high findings of the incidence of hypertension which raises the suspicion of the lack of the role of public health nurses in the management of hypertension. This study aimed to determine the correlation between the role of community health center nurses and family independence in handling hypertension in Lima Kaum 1 Community Health Center Batusangkar in 2019. The type of this research was a quasy experiment with a descriptive analytic approach with a cross sectional study approach. The populations were 93 people. Then, by using random sampling technique, 64 respondents were chosen as the samples. The data were collected trough questionnaires and it was analyzed by univariate and bivariate analysis by using the chi-square test. The results of this research showed that 54.7% of respondents stated that the role of community health center nurses were not good. Then, 48.4% of them included category 2 independent families. Moreover, there was a correlation between the role of community health center nurses and family independence in handling hypertension statistically p = 0,048. In short, it can be concluded that the role of community health center nurses was related to the level of family independence in handling hypertension. Therefore, it is expected that health officials, especially community health nurses improve the application and implementation of community health activities, especially in efforts to promote and prevent hypertension.