Open AccessThe Relationship between The Level of Side Effects of ARV Drugs in ODHA Patients to The Level of The Compliance Use of ARV Drugs
Author(s) -
Aisha Maulidya Sari
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
pharmaceutical journal of indonesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2461-114X
DOI - 10.21776/ub.pji.2021.006.02.8
Subject(s) - medicine , side effect (computer science) , drug , antiretroviral therapy , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , compliance (psychology) , disease , patient compliance , viral load , pharmacology , immunology , emergency medicine , psychology , social psychology , computer science , programming language
HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus is one of the causes of AIDS ( Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) that is a disease that attacks the body's immunity. One therapy for treating HIV/AIDS is with antiretroviral therapy. In antiretroviral therapy high adherence is needed at least 95% of the dose should not be forgotten to achieve desired virological suppression. One factor affecting compliance is the side effects of ARV drugs that appear in ODHA patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy. This study aims at knowing the relationship of the level of drug side effects to the level of compliance in the treatment of ARVs in ODHA patients. This research uses cross-sectional in ODHA patients in Puskesmas Dinoyo, Malang City. The results of the study were found that the level of ODHA patient drug side effects at the Puskesmas Dinoyo VCT Clinic, the ODHA patient who did not experience side effects, was 5.8% , side effects a little 21.3%, moderate side effects 21.2% and high side effects 51.8%. Compliance with taking ODHA patient medication at the VCT Clinic Puskesmas Dinoyo patients with low adherence of 1.2%, moderate compliance 69.4% and high compliance 29.4%. There is no significant relationship between the level of side effects of ARV drugs in ODHA patients with the level of compliance with ARV drug use with values p- the value obtained is 0.412.