The Effect of Patient Education on the HIV Patients Knowledge about Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) at Kanti Sehati Sejati Foundation, Jambi: Pengaruh Pemberian Edukasi terhadap Pengetahuan Complementary Alternative Medicine (CAM) Pada Penderita HIV Yayasan Kanti Sehati Sejati Kota Jambi

Jelly Permatasari
Indri Meirista
Nadiatul Mawaddah (STIKES Harapan Ibu)

Journal Pharmasci (Journal of Pharmacy and Science)
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2020): Journal Pharmasci (Journal of Pharmacy and Science)

HIV / AIDS is a public health problem that needs serious attention from the government. Besides toconventional medicine people with HIV / AIDS often use complementary and alternative medicines (CAM)in order to increase the quality of health. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) uses naturalingredients, not only restricted to herbal plants, but also includes the use of other natural vitamins andminerals. Compared to conventional treatments, CAM therapy is more save to use because it does not causeserious side effects. The purpose of this study was to know what are the effects of providing CAM educationto ODHA at the Jambi Kanti Sehati Sejati Foundation. This research was a quasi-experimental one typepretest-posttest type of research and is a type of quantitative descriptive study with prospective datacollection. There were 35 ODHA who were respondents in this study and registered as members of the JambiKanti Sehati Sejati Foundation. The results of research on demographic characteristics and CAM knowledgewere obtained from questionnaires that given before and after giving the education, and proved by paired Ttest so that significance values ≤ 0.05 were obtained. This shows that there is the influence of education onCAM knowledge in HIV sufferer.