Rationality Antipsychotics Use Among Schizophrenia Outpatient of Regional Mental Hospital of Abepura from the Period of January to March 2015

Abstract

Irrational drug use has become a global problem. Rational use of drugs that do not necessarily have an impact on the quality of treatment, health care costs, and may lead to distrust the patient to the drug. Schizophrenia requires antipsychotic therapy administration in the time period long enough, so it is possible in the treatment process can be found the problems in the use of antipsychotics. This study aims to determine the rationality of the use of antipsychotics in schizophrenic patients in the Outpatient Unit RSJD Abepura period January - March 2015 in terms of the accuracy of diagnosis, drug selection, dosage, route of administration, interval timing, duration administration, and affordability of prices. This type of research is non-experimental design with a descriptive and retrospective data collection.

The population is all patients with schizophrenia with the sample is whole medical records that meet the criteria for a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Data collection instruments such as medical records and prescription sheets. Data analysis technique used statistical analysis to describe the characteristics of patients and to determine the rationality of drugs by determining the percentage of each drug rationality criteria that are met. From the study results have conducted that 202 medical records of patients with schizophrenia concluded that the use of antipsychotics in schizophrenic patients in the outpatient unit of Mental hospital Abepura period from January to March 2015 is yet to be said to be rational.

Assessment results obtained by the proper diagnosis of 100%, the exact indication of 96.04%, 31.19% appropriate drug selection, dosage 97.03% right, right-to-administer 100%, the exact time interval is 91.09% drug administration, old right medication 93.07%, and 3.96% affordability of drugs.