MEDICATION ADHERENCE AND THERAPEUTICAL OUTCOME IN HYPERTENSION PATIENTS AT THE MLATI II HEALTH CENTER Mardiana Puji Lestari1*, Dewi Puspita Sari2
*1, 2 Program Studi Farmasi (S-1), Fakultas Kesehatan, Universitas Jendral Achmad Yani
Abstract
Background: Hypertension is a chronic disease characterized by an increase in systolic blood pressure >140 mmHg and/or diastolic blood pressure >90 mmHg. Hypertension is a disease that needs to be treated properly and continuously. One of the critical successes of therapy is medication adherence by patients. The existence of non-adherence did not result in the achievement of therapeutic goals
Objective: This study aims to determine the correlation between medication adherence and therapeutic outcome in hypertension patients at the Mlati II health center.
Methods: This research is a non-experimental study with a cross sectional design analysis. The study was conducted in 76 patients with hypertension at the Mlati II health center, where samples were taken by purposive sampling technique. Adherence was obtained in the form of adherence levels measured using the MMAS-8 questionnaire, therapeutic outcomes assessed by measuring a patient^s blood pressure. Then the data were analyzed using the Chi-square test to determine the relationship between the level of adherence to therapeutic outcomes.
Results: The results showed that of 76 hypertension patients, the majority aged 46-55 years (44.7%), female gender (69.7%), senior high school (39.5%), employment status did not work (55.3%), long suffering from hypertension <5 years (76.3%), received single therapy (61.8%) with the type of antihypertension drug amlodipine (59.2%), low adherence category rate (39.5%), outcome of therapy with uncontrolled blood pressure (60,5%), and significancy level p = 0,997>0,05
Conclusion: There is no relationship between the level of adherence to the use of antihypertension drugs and the outcome therapy of controlled blood pressure at the Mlati Il health center.