Improving Outpatient’s Quality of Life Through Patient Adherence of Antihypertensive Therapy Using “Mobile Phone (SMS) and Brief Counseling‑5A” in Polyclinic of Internal Medicine at PKU Muhammadiyah Bantul Hospital, Yogyakarta
Abstract: The Health-Related
Quality of Life (HRQoL) is one of the important psycho-social characteristics
that can affect patient’s ability to manage therapy. Poor of knowledge of
hypertension and the changing lifestyle can affect the quality of life of
patients. One of the pharmacist’s interventions in hypertension management is
to conduct counseling. Motivational counseling helps health service to assess
patient’s understanding and patient’s readiness to change patient’s behavior.
Some motivational counseling methods still need to be developed. Therefore,
this study aims to find the influence of the "brief counseling-5A"
and "motivational SMS" by a pharmacist on the quality of life and
blood pressure control in hypertension patients in the internal disease
polyclinic, PKU Muhammadiyah Bantul Hospital, Yogyakarta. The study has been
done by using the quasi-experimental method with prospective data collection
during the period of January until April 2013. Sixty patients have met
inclusion criteria and were divided into two groups. Thirty patients (50%)
received "brief counseling-5A" and "motivational SMS" as
intervention group and the other thirty patients (50%) received usual care as a
control group. The data collection was done by interviewing patients.
Medication adherence and QoL were assessed by using Morisky Medication Adherence
Scale (MMAS) and SF-36. The values of blood pressure are taken from patient’s
medical records. Patient’s quality of life showed a good improvement during
post study. It is shown in 8 different domains including pain, fatigue,
physical function, emotional function, social function, role physical, mental
health, and general health. In intervention group, physical function, emotional
function, and pain showed highly significant improvement (p<0.05). Systolic
and diastolic blood pressure in the intervention group decreased significantly
(p<0.05) (systolic p=0.001 and diastolic p=0.018) in the post study. From
this study, it is concluded that the "brief counseling-5A by
pharmacist" and "motivational SMS" had a positive impact on
patient’s QoL and patient’s blood pressure, hence, the therapy outcome has been
achieved.
Keywords: Adherence; Blood
pressure; Brief counseling; Hypertension; Quality of life; SMS
Penulis: Ginanjar Zukhruf
Saputri, Akrom Akrom, Endang Darmawan
Kode Jurnal: jpfarmasidd170002
