Intervention “Cakram of Degenerative Disease” to Knowledge and Attitude of Employees Sriwijaya University

The degenerative disease into a leading cause of death globally. Hypertension is one of the degenerative diseases that become important health problems worldwide because of its high prevalence and continued to rise and its relation to cardiovascular disease, stroke and kidney disease. Hypertension risk factors also became the third-largest cause of premature death and obesity is a risk factor hypertension that can be modified. The purpose of this study is to know the effect of nutrition education by Cakram media to increase knowledge and attitude of about hypertension dan obesity.This study used quasi-experimental design with two group pre and post-test design, The population of this study were all employees of Sriwijaya University in Indralaya with consist of 110 employees from five faculty. Sampling was carried out with a Cluster Random Sampling. There were 57 sample on experimental group and 53 sample on control group. Results of statistical analysis using Mean Whitney. The mean score of knowledge after being given a nutritional education was 29,00 in the experimental group and in the control group was 26,00 (p-value=0.031). The mean score of attitudes after being given a nutritional education was 28,88 in the experimental group and in the control group was 27,00 (p-value=0.942). There was no difference in mean score of attitudes between the experimental and control groups after being given a nutritional education. There was a difference in mean values of knowledge between the experimental and control groups after being given a nutritional education.