Older population is significantly grown up in global society, and most of the elderly suffering with hypertension. Hypertension is one of the extremely disease which cause cardiovascular and decreasing the quality of life. Using complementary methods seems necessary to lessen the patients problem like using progressive muscle relaxation and hearing Holy Quran sound to elderly with hypertension. To assess the effectiveness of progressive muscles relaxation and hearing Holy Quran sound to the QOL in elderly with hypertension. On elderly with hypertension who is residing in Guguk Panjang area. We used quasy experimental study design which consisted of 38 participants and divided into two groups, 15 as intervention group and 23 participants as control group. In experiment group subject were practiced the progressive muscle relaxation and listened to the Holy Quran for 6 consecutive days. They have listened the last of three surah from the Holy Quran. The quality of life was measure using WHO-QOL BREF. Based on Mann Whitney test results the quality of life score shows significant difference in mean scores for total scores in qol before and after intervention between two groups (p = 0.004). Furthermore almost all domain also show significant difference. There is a significant difference between QoL experiments and control group after getting the progressive muscle relaxation and hearing the Quran sound among elderly with hypertension. These findings indicate that hearing the Quran sound will increase the quality of life of elderly with hypertension.

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D. Kurniawati, and P. P. Bungsu, “The effect of progressive muscle relaxation and hearing Holy Quran sound on the quality of life among elderly with hypertension”, International Journal of Health and Medical Sciences, vol. 7, pp. 13-19, 2021. doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.20469/ijhms.7.30003