| Abstrak/Abstract |
The use of antiretroviral (ARV) in HIV/AIDS requires a high level of adherence (> 95%) to achieve the expected therapeutic response. Response to therapy is shown by the amelioration of surrogate markers of CD4 and increase the value of patient body weight. The study is aimed to find out the level of patient adherence, the factors that influence adherence, and the response of the ARV therapy undergone by the HIV/AIDS patients hospitalized in a teaching hospital in Yogyakarta.
Descriptive non-experimental design was used for the study. The data was collected through questionnaires by 33 respondents. We also interviewed with respondents and take the data retrospectively using medical records. The results were analyzed descriptively.
From thirty three respondents, there were 30 people (90.91%) had the high adherence rate and the 3 people (9.09%) had the low adherence rate. Factors that affect adherence include patient’s satisfaction with health services (100%), knowledge of ARV and its side effect (93,94%), role of supervisor of taking ARV (87,88%), got side effect (57,58%), stigma (51,52%), having opportunistic infections (12,22%), being away from home (9,09%), and being too busy and availibity of ARV (3,03%). As observed further, 18 patients had their CD4 increased; and 20 patients had gained weight after undergoing ARV therapy.
We concluded that patients with high medication adherence was not always attended by increase of CD4 and in weight.
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