| Summary: | Asthma is a respiratory disease and is often found to be a problem in the
community and requires the selection and use of appropriate medications to
reduce the frequency of asthma attacks. One effort to reduce the frequency of
asthma attacks in order to achieve therapeutic success is to improve patient
compliance in taking the drug. Proper counseling by pharmacists and rewarding
expected to improve treatment adherence and can provide maximum therapeutic
results. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of pharmacist
counseling on adherence and treatment outcomes, and to determine the correlation
of compliance and therapeutic outcomes of asthma patients in hospital outpatient
Yogyakarta Special Lung Respira. The research method uses quasi experimental
design with a control group design with pretest post test. Patients who got
antiasma divided into two groups: patients who received counseling from
researchers (treatment group) and patients without receiving counseling (control
group). The data was collected by conducting interviews and questionnaires
adherence MMAS (MoriskynMedication Adherence Scale) while using the
therapeutic outcome assessment questionnaires ACT (Asthma Control Test).
Providing counseling in the treatment group performed twice -face by researchers
at the first and fourth week, providing counseling in the control group performed
the fourth week of the study. Number of test subjects 100 patients, consisting of
50 treatment group and 50 control group. Analysis of statistical tests used were
Wilcoxon to see changes in the average score of adherence and treatment
outcomes before and after counseling from each group p=0.000 (α<0,05). Mann
Whitney test was conducted to determine differences in mean scores and results of
treatment adherence and counseling control group p=0.000 (α<0,05). Correlation
test results demonstrate compliance and therapeutic outcomes are positive and
significant relationship between MMAS and ACT category (p=0.000
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