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Medication adherence in diabetes mellitus patients at Tanjung Karang Primary Health Care Center, Mataram

  • Mahacita Andanalusia , Umi Athiyah and Yunita Nita EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: December 18, 2019
Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology
From the journal Journal of Basic and Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology Volume 30 Issue 6

Abstract

Background

The prevalence of diabetes mellitus continues to increase every year, including in Indonesia. To prevent complications of diabetes mellitus, patients need to adhere to therapy. The aim of this study was to assess patient adherence to diabetes mellitus drug therapy at Tanjung Karang Primary Health Care Center, Mataram.

Methods

A total of 60 participants were recruited in April–May 2019. The inclusion criteria of respondents were patients who were diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, treated at Tanjung Karang Primary Health Care Center for more than 1 month, and aged at least 18 years. Assessment of adherence to therapy was carried out using a validated questionnaire, which was the Adherence to Refill Medication Scale (ARMS) questionnaire. The scale used was the Likert scale (1–4) with a score range of 12–48. The higher the total score, the lower the compliance.

Results

The average age of the respondents was 54.97 years. The average ARMS score was 19.52 ± 5.688 with the lowest score of 12 and the highest score of 33. Among all respondents, only 8.3% had good adherence (total score of 12). Based on the subscales, the average score for refilling medicine and intentional nonadherence in taking medicine was 7.18 ± 2.383, the unintentional nonadherence in taking medicine was 8.13 ± 2.764, and the persistence in refilling medicine was 4.12 ± 1.738.

Conclusions

Patient medication adherence to the treatment of diabetes mellitus needs to be improved. An approach through healthcare professionals can be achieved so that the therapeutic outcome will be achieved.

Keywords: adherence to refill medicine; diabetes mellitus; intended nonadherence; medication adherence; unintended nonadherence

Acknowledgments

We thank the stakeholders of Tanjung Karang Primary Health Care Center in Mataram and our colleagues in Universitas Airlangga for technical assistance.

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  5. Ethical approval: Research involving human subjects complied with all relevant national regulations, institutional policies and is in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration (as revised in 2013), and has been approved by the authors’ institutional review board or equivalent committee.

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Received: 2019-10-02
Accepted: 2019-11-12
Published Online: 2019-12-18

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Keywords for this article
adherence to refill medicine; diabetes mellitus; intended nonadherence; medication adherence; unintended nonadherence

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