Latar Belakang: Hipertensi merupakan salah satu masalah kesehatan yang dilaporkan terus menerus meningkat secara nasional self-care management hipertensi merupakan salah satu penatalaksanaan yang efektif untuk membantu penderita hipertensi mengelola tekanan darah. Dukungan keluarga memliki peran penting dalam mengontrol tekanan darah pada lansia hipertensi dan mengelola selfcare management. Tujuan: Untuk mengetahui hubungan dukungan keluarga dengan self-care management hipertensi pada lansia yang membutuhkan perawatan jangka panjang di wilayah kerja Puskesmas III Denpasar Selatan. Metode: Penelitian ini menggunakan desain analitik korelasi dangan pendekatan cross-sectional. Populasi dalam penelitian ini yaitu lansia menderita hipertensi yang ada di wilayah kerja Puskesmas III Denpasar Selatan dengan jumlah populasi 341 responden dan sampel sebanyak 120 responden dipilih menggunakan convenience sampling. Alat pengumpulan data berupa kuesioner baku dukungan keluarga dengan nilai cronbach alpha 0,628. Pada self-care management menggunakan kuesioner baku self-care management hipertensi dengan nilai cronbach alpha berkisar 0,67 dan 0,82. Data dianalisis secara univariat dan bivariat menggunakan SPSS 20. Hasil: Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sebagian besar penderita hipertensi memiliki dukugan keluarga yang baik sebanyak 88 responden (73,3%), self-care management hipertensi yang baik sebanyak 116 reponden (96,7%). Hasil analisis perhitungan Spearman rho correlation coefficient yaitu (0,986) dan nilai p 0,001 menunjukkan bahwa arah korelasi pada perhitungan yaitu positif dengan kekuatan korelasi sangat kuat yang berarti semakin baik dukungan keluarga maka semakin baik juga self-care management. Kesimpulan: Dukungan keluarga memiliki hubungan dalam mengelola self-care menagement hipertensi pada lansia yang membutuhkan perawatan jangka panjang. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian didapatkan semakin baik dukungan keluarga maka semakin baik juga self-care management hipertensi pada lansia. Kata Kunci: Hipertensi, Dukungan Keluarga, Self-Care Management

Background: Hypertension is one of the health problems that is continuously reported to increase nationally. Hypertension self-care management is one of the effective treatments to help patients with hypertension manage blood pressure. Family support has an essential role in controlling blood pressure of hypertensive elderly and managing self-care management. Purpose: To determine the correlation between family support and self-care management of elderly with hypertension requiring long-term care in the working area of Public Health Center III South Denpasar. Method: This study employed an analytic correlation design with a cross-sectional approach. The population in this study were elderly with hypertension in the working area of Public Health Center III South Denpasar with a population of 341 respondents. There were 120 respondents recruited as sample of the study which were selected by using convenience sampling technique. The data were collected by using standardized family support questionnaire with a Cronbach alpha value of 0.628. In self-care management utilized a standardized hypertension self-care management questionnaire with Cronbach alpha values ranging from 0.67 and 0.82. The data were analyzed by using univariately and bivariately using SPSS 20. Result: The finding showed that there were 88 respondents (73.3%) had good family support, and there were 116 respondents (96.7%) had good hypertension self-care management. The Spearman rho correlation coefficient showed that (0.986) and a p value of 0.001, showed that the direction of the correlation is positive with a very strong correlation strength, which meant that the better the family support, the better the self-care management. Conclusion: Family support has a correlation in managing hypertension self-care management among elderly requiring long-term care. The finding shows that better the family support, the better the self-care management of hypertension among elderly. Keywords: Hypertension, Family Support, Self-Care Management