Telenursing Using Mobile Phone Features For Medication Adherence Tuberculosis Patients: A Systematic Review

Background: The Direct Observation of Therapy (DOT) is recommended by World Health Organization to observe directly the medication adherence of TB patient which is conducted by health personnel, but limited health personnel and patient barriers to access treatment causes the role of DOT is diverted to the family, so it is less effective. Telenursing based mobile phone features can be used for remote DOT because mobile phone is a communication technology commonly used by people around the world an has various features. Method: Searching article in electronic database; Ebscho, Science direct, ProQuest, Pub Med, Wiley, Springer Link, dan Journal Ners limited range of the last 10 years 2007 to 2017. Result:From 15 journals conducted review the number of samples vary between 30-6.203 respondents and duration of intervention by telenursing based mobile phone features (Short Message Service, Telephone, and Videophone) between 2 months up to 18 months. All research releted with telenursing is effective as DOT and improve the medication adherence of TB patients through mobile phone features. Conclusion: Telenursing based mobile phone features can be implemented to DOT in medication adherence of TB patients with direct observation by health personne