KEPATUHAN PENGGUNAAN OBAT PADA PASIEN LANSIA DENGAN PENYAKIT KRONIS (Studi Berdasarkan Adherence to Refills and Medication Scale pada Posyandu Lansia “Lansia Mandiri” RW 02 Kelurahan Airlangga Kecamatan Gubeng Surabaya)

• Main Author: FERERA MARLA SAPUTRA, 051211132002
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Language: Indonesian; Indonesian
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: RS1-441 Pharmacy and materia medica
• Online Access: http://repository.unair.ac.id/64907/1/FF%20Kom%2005-17%20Sap%20k%20Abstrak.pdf; http://repository.unair.ac.id/64907/2/FF%20Kom%2005-17%20Sap%20k%20Sec.pdf; http://repository.unair.ac.id/64907/; http://lib.unair.ac.id
• Institution: Universitas Airlangga

Medication adherence is a crucial component in treatment of chronic diseases to reduce complications in elderly. Elderly patients were highly vulnerable to suffer chronic diseases, because there are anatomical, physiological, and biochemical changes occur in the elderly. Elderly patients may have problems in memory, vision, and hearing that could contribute to medication non-adherence. The purpose of this study was to determine the adherence of oral medication in elderly patients with chronic diseases based on Adherence to Refills and Medication Scale (ARMS). This study was a cross sectional study using purposive sampling. Data were obtained by survey method using ARMS. ARMS was a valid and reliable medication adherence scale. The value of the correlation between the questions was from 0.353 to 0.579 and was showed good internal consistency with α value of 0.814. This study included 52 respondents. The adherence measurement obtained with the ARMS resulted an elderly patients with low adherence (1.9%) and 51 elderly patients with moderate adherence (98.1%). Therefore, it is necessary to increase the role of the pharmacists in the pharmacy services by providing counseling, information and education that was appropriate and also supervise the use of drugs in order to reduce non-adherence in elderly patients with chronic diseases.