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Introduction: Stress is a reaction that occurs in people with hypertension. Poor stress reactions
produce low self-care abilities in people with hypertension. Good stress management is needed
to maintain blood pressure so that it is well controlled. Spirituality is an important component
that can affect a person’s quality of life and also a source of strength. The purpose of this study
was to analyze the effect of spiritual factors on stress reactions in hypertension patients.
Method: This study uses an analytic observational approach with a cross-sectional approach
as a research design. The samples in this study were as many as 90 hypertension patients who
were taken hypertension using simple random sampling techniques. Research variables in this
study include spiritual experience, spiritual openness, spiritual support, and stress response.
This study uses a questionnaire as a research instrument. Data analysis was performed by linear
regression test with level of significance 95%. Results: The results showed that spiritual
openness (p-value = 0.028) and spiritual support (p-value = 0.021) influenced the stress
reaction of hypertensive patient. Meanwhile, spiritual experience are not significant (p-value =
0.079). Conclusions: Increasing stress management capabilities by providing adequate
spiritual support is a major component that can reduce stress reactions in hypertensive patients
so that they can control blood pressure and prevent complications. Therefore, health workers
especially nurses need to provide spiritual resources as part of the process of providing nursing
care to hypertension patients