Pengaruh Pemberian Informasi Obat Antihipertensi Terhadap Tingkat Pengetahuan dan Kepatuhan Pasien Peserta Prolanis di Puskesmas Gedangan Kabupaten Malang

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease especially hypertension requires proper treatment because it can cause complication such as stroke, heart failure and kidney disease. Provision of drug informasion is one of the factors that can increase the patient’s knowledge in understanding the illness so that it can affect the patient’s level of medication adherence. The purpose of the study was to determine the influence of providing drug information on the level of knowledge and adherence of hypertensive patients at Gedangan Health Center in Malang Districs. This research method is a quasi-experimental with one group pre-test post-test design. Purposive sampling method was used to the selection of respondents. There were 68 respondents who met the inclusion criteria was found. Hypertension patients are patients that registered in the chronic disease management program at Gedangan Health Center. The instrument used in this study was a knowledge questionnaire consisting 22 questions, as well as the Morisky Medication Adherence Scale (MMAS-8) adherencequestionnaire, whichhad previously been tested for validity and reliability. The results of the study were seen from the knowledge and compliance questionnaire score pre-test and post-test. Faculty of Medicine Universitas Brawijaya has ethically approved the research by the number 80/EC/KEPK-S1-FARM/04/2020. The data obtained were statistically analyzed using paired t-test to determine the relationship between the two variables. Paired t-test scores showed that the level of knowledge increased significantly (p = 0. 000) and adherence increased significantly (p = 0. 000) after drug information administration. The conclusion of this study was that there was a significant difference between the level of knowledge and adherence before and after the provision of drug information at Gedangan Health Center of Malang Regency.