| Summary: | Background: Approximately 450 million individuals (0.85%) suffer from schizophrenia worldwide. Schizophrenia is 4th after unipolar depression, alcoholic, and bipolar diseases. In Indonesia, prevalence of light and heavy schizophrenia was 18.5%, survey from among hospitals indicated that prevalence of schizophrenia was founded 0.05-0.15%. In the Southern-West Aceh (Aceh Barat Daya) District, the number of patients schizophrenia, in 2008, were 148 patients. Current schizophrenia still become health problem in the Southern-West Aceh District.
Objectives: To identify correlation between social support and the compliance with drug administration of patients who diagnose schizophrenia in the Southern-West Aceh District.
Methods: We conduct quantitative research with cross-sectional design, research location at Southern-West Aceh District from June, 2009 until January, 2010. The respondents were patients who diagnose schizophrenia by general practice plus at public health centre the Southern-West Aceh District. We use total sampling from the patients with treated schizophrenia. The data of research were collected by using Social Support Questionnaire (SSQ) and Medication Adherence Rating Scale (MARS) 2008. Data analyzed by using chi-square test and logistic regression.
Results: The bivariate result analysis indicated that there was significant correlation between social support (OR=3.12 with p=0.002), satisfaction for social support (OR=5.31 with p=0.000), total emotional supports (OR=2.95 with p=0.003), satisfaction for emotional support (OR=3.02 with p=0.004), satisfaction for instrumental support (OR=2.27 with p=0.028), total information supports (OR=2.55 with p=0.011), satisfaction for information support (OR=4.21 with p=0.000) marital status (OR=2.27 with p=0.040) and educational level (OR=2.97 with p=0.037) with compliance drug administration of patients with schizophrenia. Multivariate analysis result indicated the most dominant variables contributing to compliance drug administration was satisfaction for social support (OR=6.14 with p=0.000), satisfaction for instrumental support (OR=3.79 with p=0.002), education level (OR=3.49 with p=0.021) and emotional support (OR=2,79 with p=0.012).
Conclusion: Satisfaction for social support is become the mostly affecting compliance variable with drug administration of patients with schizophrenia in the Southern-West Aceh District.
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