The Efficacy of Education Program About Antiretroviral Drugs Used in HIV Patients at Dararussamee Hospital, Chiangmai

Abstract

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to assess the efficacy of modified educational program about the use of antiretroviral therapy on improving knowledge and satisfaction evaluation toward the program among HIV patients undergoing treatment with GPO-VIR Z250 at Dararussamee hospital, Chaing Mai. The 30 subjects who failed to pass the requirement knowledge examination were purposive sampling. All participated the program, consisted of: 1) individual education; 2) education with offering ARV portable label; 3) education with training song and danced GPO-VIR Z250 music. After finishing the education program, they were tested again with the knowledge examination and self-reported satisfaction questionnaire. A month follow-up, the same knowledge examination was administrated to assess the longevity of the program outcomes. Outcome scale scores were compared between baseline, first, and second posttests separately with the Friedman Test for difference in mean scores and post-hoc with Paired Sample Sign Test, at α<0.05. The analysis showed that the first posttest knowledge scores were significantly higher than baseline. Compare with the first posttest, though, a month follow-up posttest knowledge scores were significantly decreased, it remained higher than the baseline score (p<0.05). For satisfaction evaluation, not less than 80% of the subjects were very satisfied in all items except the item about obviousness or easy to understand of the illustrations, which only 36.7% of the patients were very satisfied. This study revealed that the education program comprised with many communication types was able to improve HIV patients' knowledge effectively and it was also satisfied. Therefore, it should be extended to more hospitals to multiply its effects.