A ANALYSIS OF THE EFFECT OF FUNCTIONAL CALENDAR MEDIA ON ADHERENCE TO TAKING HYPERTENSION MEDICATION IN THE DOWN-REFERRAL PROGRAM AT THE BANJARMASIN PARTNER PHARMACY

Abstract

Hypertension is the most common disease suffered by people in Indonesia. Providing functional calendar media can improve hypertension patient compliance in taking medication, compliance is an important factor in the success of hypertension treatment programs. This study aims to analyze the effect of functional calendar media on adherence to taking hypertension medication in the referral program at Mitra Pharmacy Banjarmasin. This study was conducted with a pretest-posttest control group design. The population and sample were hypertensive patients who were not compliant with hypertension therapy at Mitra Banjarmasin Pharmacy, the research was conducted in April 2023 with a total sample of 68 people. The sampling test was carried out using the total sampling method. Data collection using the HILL-BONE adherence scale, data were analyzed by wilcoxon and mann whitney tests.Compliance of hypertensive patients before getting functional calendar media is categorized as non-compliant and compliance of hypertensive patients after getting functional calendar media has increased. Based on the results of the Wilcoxon test, the p value 0.00 is smaller than 0.05, which means that there is an increase in adherence to taking hypertension patients' medication with the provision of functional calendar media.There are differences in adherence to taking medication before and after getting functional calendar media and there are differences between the intervention group and the control group.