Effect of Pharmacist Home Care on Adherence of Hypertensive Patients
Journal Title: Indonesian Journal of Clinical Pharmacy - Year 2017, Vol 6, Issue 4
Abstract
Based on data from Basic Health Research on 2013, the prevalence of hypertension was up to 25.8%. Hypertension can be controlled by taking medication regularly and healthy lifestyle. Factor that can improve the success of the treatment of hypertension is patient adherence in taking medicines. Home pharmacy care by pharmacist was expected to provide education and understanding of therapy also ensure that patients can take the medicine properly, therefore it can improve patient adherence in taking medicine. The aim of this research was to determine the effect of pharmacist home care on antihypertensive patient’s adherence in taking medicine. Experimental research design was used in this research. There were 70 hypertensive patients involved who were members of Chronic Disease Management Program from 7 general practitioners in Banyumas, Central Java. The participants were divided into control group (35 patients) and home care group (35 patients). All of the participants received standard information about antihypertensive drugs usage. Pharmacist home care was an intervention which done at 15th day by giving information about hypertension, pharmacology and non-pharmacology treatment for 10–20 minutes at patient’s house. Pill count was used to measure patient adherence to antihypertensive drugs used at 30th day. According to statistical analysis by Chi‑Square test, we obtained the value p= 0.000 (p<0.05). It can be concluded that there was pharmacist home care effect on antihypertensive patient’s adherence (p=0.000).
Authors and Affiliations
Wahyu Utaminingrum, Resita Pranitasari, Anjar M. Kusuma
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- EP ID EP370128
- DOI 10.15416/ijcp.2017.6.4.240
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