The Correlation between Adherence and Asthma Patients Quality of Life in Medan, Indonesia

Arlinda Sari Wahyuni; Rozaimah Zain Hamid; Adang Bachtiar; Nerdy Nerdy

doi:10.3889/oamjms.2018.362

Authors

Arlinda Sari Wahyuni Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan
Rozaimah Zain Hamid Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan
Adang Bachtiar Department of Health Administration and Policy, School of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, Depok
Nerdy Nerdy Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2018.362

Keywords:

adherence, asthma patients, quality of life, Medan

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Asthma is a chronic airway disease that is based on an inflammatory process and a serious health problem around the world. Asthma is often associated with treatment management factor. Adherence is the patientâ€™s compliance towards their doctor's advice, which is accompanied by their understanding and follows the doctorsâ€™ advice consistently.

AIM: This study aimed to get a valid and reliable adherence measure in asthma patients especially in Medan.

METHODS: This research used the method of quantitative done by the cross-sectional approach. The sample (200 adult asthma patients) used standard asthma medication, stable asthma patients and did not suffer from severe asthma or other accompanying diseases. Data were analysed using univariate, bivariate and multivariate analysis, which is SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) analysis.

RESULTS: The best dimension of medication adherence was the dimension of beliefs in medication 64%. The highest education adherence is at college education level which is 67.6%. Employment status with highest adherence value is medication on civil servant/military/police with the value of 67.7.

CONCLUSIONS: There is a correlation between adherence and asthma patientâ€™s quality of life in Medan.