Medication Adherence in Patients of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2: Status of Depression and Working Status

Abstract

The development of the era into this modern era, people’s lifestyles are now shifting towards the less
good, causing more consumptive people and lead unhealthy lives. This triggers the emergence of noncommunicable
diseases in Indonesia, one of which is Diabetes. Most Diabetes patients will obey and follow
the advice and advice of doctors when they feel unwell and if they feel they are in good condition will tend
to be disobedient. The method used in this research is analytic observational with cross sectional design.
The sample in this study amounted to 76 respondents taken by accidental sampling technique. The study
was conducted at the Mojo Public Health Center in Surabaya by giving respondents questionnaires. The
analysis used in this study is descriptive and count of prevalence ratio. The results showed that there was a
relationship between work and medication adherence(p = 0.009), age (p = 0.368), sex (p = 0.518), education
(0.560), knowledge (p = 0.619), duration of illness (p=0.513) and the tendency for depression (0.326).
Tendency of depression indicates no relationship with medication adherence. The conclusion of this study
is that there is a relationship between work and medication adherence. Patients with diabetes who do work
have risk of being disobedient to treatment than patients who no work. Although depression and adherence
to treatment did not show a meaningful relationship, but the results of the study showed that most of the
medication adherence groups were depression