Patient Adherence to Rheumatoid Arthritis Medication at an Outpatient Clinic Public Hospital in Padang City, West Sumatera
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- 10.2991/ahsr.k.211105.011How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- rheumatoid arthritis; adherence; Morisky Medication Adherence Scale; MMAS-8; assessment tool
- Abstract
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that attacks the joints and spreads to other organs. Most patients suffer from chronic pain, tissue damage, deformity and can cause risks of mortality. The disease requires long-term and regular treatment to achieve optimal therapeutic results. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between sociodemographic patients and medication adherence to rheumatoid arthritis drugs. This research was a cross-sectional study using Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) as a validated assessment tool. At the same time, the data were collected prospectively with consecutive sampling techniques at an Outpatient Clinic Public Hospital in Padang City. The total number of respondents involved in the study were 30 patients. The sociodemographic majority of patients were 29 women (96.67%), 13 senior high school (43.3%) and 18 housewives (60%) patients. According to MMAS-8, the results showed patients in various levels of adherence as high, moderate, and low with 13.3%, 40% and 46.67%, respectively. The majority of patients (83.3%) forgot to take their medicines. The statistical analysis detected no differences between sociodemographic and patients’ adherence (p>0.05).
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- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
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TY - CONF AU - Dita Permatasari AU - Juni Fitrah AU - Vonny Novia AU - Yelly Oktavia Sari PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/17 TI - Patient Adherence to Rheumatoid Arthritis Medication at an Outpatient Clinic Public Hospital in Padang City, West Sumatera BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Science and Clinical Pharmacy 2021 (ICCSCP 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 75 EP - 80 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.211105.011 DO - 10.2991/ahsr.k.211105.011 ID - Permatasari2021 ER -