Medication Adherence among Hypertensive Patients in Primary Healthcare in Bandung City
Journal Title: Indonesian Journal of Clinical Pharmacy - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Hypertension is a disease with high mortality and also mobility all over the world. The prevalence of hypertension is increasing every year and West Java is ranked fourth with a prevalence by 29.4%. This study aimed to measure the level of medication adherence of hypertensive patients by using EightItem Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) questionnaire. This study was an observational study using cross sectional design and conducted in October 2017–February 2018 at primary healthcare facilities in Bandung City. A total of two hundred and twenty-six respondents were involved in the study. Respondents are required to fill out the validated Indonesian version of MMAS-8 questionnaire after signing informed consent. The results showed that 53.5% of the respondents had low level of adherence, 32.3% of the respondents had moderate level of adherence, and 14.2% of the respondents had high level of adherence. Then, data were processed statistically by using Chi-Square analysis and the results showed that there was significant correlation (p>0.05) between the level of adherence to gender, education level, occupational status, family history of disease, incidence of complications, and experience with information about hypertension and diet. There was a significant correlation between the status of blood pressure (controlled and uncontrolled) to respondent’s adherence (p=0.000). In addition, more than 50% hypertensive patients in primary health care in Bandung City still has low level of medications adherence with rate of adherence is 26.3%.
Authors and Affiliations
Rano K. Sinuraya, Dika P. Destiani, Irma M. Puspitasari, Ajeng Diantini
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP370295
- DOI 10.15416/ijcp.2018.7.2.124
- Views 56
- Downloads 0
The Effect of Patient Medication Adherence on the Outcome of Cardiovascular-Related Diseases
Long-term adherence is affected by the patient behavior to medicine administration, diet management, and/ or life-style changes as the result of the patients’ concordance to the health-providers’ recommendations. Therapy...
Illness Perceptions and Quality of Life in Patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
One of the treatment objectives in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is improving their quality of life (QoL). Illness perceptions are major determinant of QOL. This study was aimed to evaluate the QoL of T2D...
γ-Aminobutyric Acid Type A Receptor Subunit α-6 (GABRA6) Gene Polymorphism and Anxiety Disorder
Anxiety disorder caused by environmental factor and individual genetic variations. Gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptors Subunit α-6 (GABRA6) is γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABA) receptor. Single Nucleotide Polymorphi...
e-Prescription: An e-Health System for Preventing Adverse Drug Events in Community Healthcare
The paper describes development activities of an e-health system for community health center (Pusk- esmas) with integrated adverse drug events e-prescription module, consist of system design and de- velopment, human reso...
Effect of Gabapentin and Baclofen on Histology Study in Neuropathic Pain
Neuropathic pain resulted from injury to nerves is often resistant to current treatments and can seriously cause chronic pain if no appropriate treatment is given. This study was designed to prove the effectiveness of ga...