Jurnal NERS
Vol. 14 No. 3 (2019): Special Issue

The Use of Health Technology to Enhance the Adherence of Tuberculosis Treatment: A Systematic Review

Dwi Uswatun Sholikhah (Faculty of Nursing Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Gevi Melliya Sari (Faculty of Nursing Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Cahya Mustika Narendri (Faculty of Nursing Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Sariati Sariati (Faculty of Nursing Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)
Nora Dwi Purwanti (Faculty of Nursing Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2019

Abstract

Introduction: Disobedience in the context of TB treatment is one of the major problems around the world. Many efforts have been made to improve the adherence to TB treatment; one of them is the utilization of health technology such as digital technology. The aim of the study was to identify the effectiveness of the use of health technology such as digital technology to improve treatment compliance.Methods: The literature review was used to identify the interventions and then the identification of the relevant literature was done by topic and title, obtaining the literature in full text form. The analysis of the results was drawn from the many interventions in the literature. There were 15 articles found from the systematic search performed in the Scopus, Proquest, Science direct, Spingerlink and Sage databases with an RCTs design. This was conducting by entering the keywords of adherence, promoting adherence, improving adherence, tuberculosis treatment, chronic disease, health technology, digital technology, mhealth and self-reminders.Results: The search was limited to journals from 2013 to 2018, with the inclusion criteria being the use health technology such as digital technology to improve the adherence to chronic disease treatment (TB treatment).Conclusion: There are several uses of health technology when it comes to improving the adherence to TB treatment that can be used as a promotive and preventive effort during the treatment of TB.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

JNERS

Publisher

Subject

Nursing

Description

The scope of this journal includes studies that intend to examine and understand nursing health care interventions and health policies which utilize advanced nursing research. The journal also committed to improve the high quality research by publishing analytic techniques, measures, and research ...