ABSTRAK
ABSTRAK
Heart failure patients are required to carry out pharmacological and non-
pharmacological therapies. Therapy done by patients with heart failure are
permanent, thus the thing that needs to be considered by patients are their
adherence. The adherence with pharmacological therapy is important for
patients with heart failure. The knowledge of medicine is a part of factors
which influence the patients to take the medicine. This study aims to
determine the relationship between knowledge of treatment and medication
adherence to heart failure patients in RSSA Malang. In this study the
method used was an observational analytic cross sectional. The population
of this study are patients with heart failure which is located in Malang, by
using 59 samples of patients with heart failure. The sampling used
consecutive technique. This study conducted in RSSA Malang. The data
was analyzed by using Spearman-rank testing. The result showed the
relation between the knowledge of medicine with the adherence of the heart
failure patients in taking the medicine. It seen from the p-value result which
value 0,000 (<0,05) it means that the better knowledge of treatment, make
the adherence to taking medication is going to be more obedient. For the
health services are expected to provide more education treatment for the
patients in order to educate the patients better.