THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TELENURSING TO IMPROVE MEDICATION ADHERENCE ON PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS

Siti, Nurjanah and Rozali, Arsyad and Agus, Riyadi (2016) THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TELENURSING TO IMPROVE MEDICATION ADHERENCE ON PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS. ARTIKEL PROSIDING.

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Abstract

Non adherence often occurs on psychiatric patients. Telenursing intervention was proven to be used as alternative to improve medication adherence on patients with chronic dissease. This research aimed to examine the effectiveness of telenursing by short messages services (SMS) as the counceling media toward psychiatric patients adherence. This research was a quasi experiment. The sampling technique was by consecutive random sampling. Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS) was the instrument to measure adherence and quistionnaire was used to value frequent of families forget to give medication to patients. The data was analized with Wilcoxon Test and Mann Withney Test. The result of Wilcoxon test to find out the effect of telenursing intervention toward psychiatric patients in medication adherence with p-value 0,001 and frequent of families forget to give medication to patients with p-value 0,0001. Mann Withney test resulted with p-value 0,0001 in medication adherence and frequent of families forget to give medication to patients with p-value 0,0001. Statically telenursing intervention was more effective to improve the medication adherence and decrease frequent of family forget to give medicine to patients compared to the control group. Telenursing intervention by SMS could be used as an alternative to increase medication adherence on psychiatric patients.

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