Studying Patient Attitudes and Family Support in The Perspective of Ro Tb Patients' Medication Compliance in Jayapura City
Abstract:
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (TB RO) is tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria which have developed immunity to Anti-Tuberculosis Drugs (OAT). The number of RO TB cases in Jayapura City was recorded at 54 cases from January 2022 - January 2023. The research aims to identify the relationship between patient attitudes and family support on compliance with taking medication for RO TB patients in Jayapura City. This type of research is quantitative descriptive, with a cross sectional design. The population is all patients diagnosed with RO TB. The sampling technique used a total sampling technique, as many as 54 people. The research location was carried out at the Pulmonary TB Polyclinic of Abepura Regional Hospital and the TB Polyclinic of Jayapura Regional Hospital, in April-May 2023. The results of the univariate analysis showed that almost the majority of respondents had good attitudes (68.4%), half of the respondents had good family support (54, 4%), and more than half of respondents with high compliance (64.9%). The results of bivariate analysis using the chi-square test showed that there was no relationship between patient attitudes towards medication adherence (ρ-value = 0.850 > 0.05), and there was a relationship between family support and medication adherence (ρ-value = 0.031 ≤ 0.05)., with a moderate strength of relationship, where the value of r = 0.286, meaning that the better the family support, the better the adherence to taking medication. Future researchers can develop this research by adding other variables that influence the level of medication compliance in RO TB patients, such as patient knowledge and health worker support.
