Analysis of Factors Related to Medication Compliance in People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV)

Abstract

Study objective: to see factors (utilization of health services, support from health workers, level of depression) related to medication adherence in People Living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIV). This study is a quantitative descriptive study with a cross-sectional approach, the number of samples in this study was 79 respondents. The instruments used in this study were 3 questionnaires, namely utilization of health services, support from health workers, and for the depression level questionnaire, using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI II) created by Aron T. Beck. To obtain data related to the variable of medication adherence in PLHIV, secondary data was taken from reports at the Temindung Samarinda Health Center. Bivariate analysis using chi square. There is a relationship between the variables of utilization of health services, support from health workers and level of depression with medication adherence in PLHIV. This is indicated by the p value of 0.00 for the first and second two variables, for the third variable p value 0.033. The three results reject H0 because the p value (<0.05). The results of this study can be used to strengthen the implementation of health service policies intended for PLHIV.