SMS Reminder Program to Improve Drug Adherence of Multi-drug Resistant Tubeculosis (MDR-TB) Patients in Medan

Syarifah, E. Mutiara, S. N. Lubis

2018

Abstract

SMS is a way to communicate through cellphone to send or receive short messages by all phone users. This media can be alternative in health promotion to improve MDR – TB patients’ compliance in case of therapy. This research aims to design reminder SMS to improve patients’ treatment compliance. This qualitativelydesigned research to create SMS content and design program with System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). The informants are MDR – TB patients who are undergoing treatment and recovered patients. Collected data to design reminder SMS, so the patients are complied to undergo treatment, analyzed by content analysis. Results show the long format-designed SMS reminder, containing 27 messages delivered everyday. Contents : the patients are complied to take medicine and injection until completion as prescribed recommendation says, prevent transmission to family and surrounding environment and accept themselves as MDR – TB patients. After implementation to the patients then qualitatively and generally the patients are relieved, capable to encourage them to take medicines without psychological obstacle, nevertheless a small part considers it normal but they still want to be reminded through the next messages. It is recommended that SMS are delivered regularly, messages’ acceptance level is monitored and compliance level for therapy is analyzed qualitatively.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Syarifah., Mutiara E. and Lubis S. (2018). SMS Reminder Program to Improve Drug Adherence of Multi-drug Resistant Tubeculosis (MDR-TB) Patients in Medan.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 1479-1485. DOI: 10.5220/0010082714791485

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={Syarifah and E. Mutiara and S. N. Lubis},
title={SMS Reminder Program to Improve Drug Adherence of Multi-drug Resistant Tubeculosis (MDR-TB) Patients in Medan},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={1479-1485},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010082714791485},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - SMS Reminder Program to Improve Drug Adherence of Multi-drug Resistant Tubeculosis (MDR-TB) Patients in Medan
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Syarifah.
AU - Mutiara E.
AU - Lubis S.
PY - 2018
SP - 1479
EP - 1485
DO - 10.5220/0010082714791485