DUKUNGAN SOSIAL DAN KEPATUHAN MINUM OBAT PADA PASIEN SKIZOFRENIA RAWAT JALAN

Abstract

Schizophrenic patient need to follow doctor’s instructions to take their medication to decrease the symptoms they had and prevent relapse. Social support will make the patients feel cared so they will become more adhere when taking their medication. The respondent in this study were the outpatient schizophrenic patients in Jakarta. This study used 2 instruments from Medication Adherence Rating Scale and Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support. Based on regression analysis in statistic test, it showed that there is a significant influence of social support toward medication adherence among outpatient schizophrenic patients (p=0.000<α=0.05).