The Influence of Personality on Adherence to Methadone Maintenance Treatment in Methadone Clinic in Hasan Sadikin General Hospital.Elvine Gunawan*, Lucky Saputra***Resident at Department Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran **Lecturer at Department Psychiatry Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran

ABSTRACTSAdherence in Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) can reduce adverse drug effects and increase the quality of life in opioid dependents. Personality is important in adherence behaviour but there are still limited study about the influence of personality on adherence in MMT. The aim of this study is to determine whether personality has an infuence on adherence to patient in MMT. This study was cross sectional analytic approach. The population of this study was patients administered to patient who were registered in Methadone Maintenance Treatment in Hasan Sadikin General Hospital and did the urine test. The data of clinical personality pattern was taken from the highest personality scale in The Millon Multiaxial Clinical Inventory III (MCMI-III) clinical personality list and the adherences data in March was taken from the medical record. Total samples are 39 consist of 7 personality patterns. The influence was examined using Kruskal Wallis Anova. There was no influence of personality in MMT adherence (p=0.3941), Employment status had no influence in MMT adherence (p= 0.7539) but education had an influence in MMT adherence (p=0.03). These finding implicate that MMT staff should pay more attention in patients who were not well educated to get better outcome. Personality pattern has no influence in meaning so staff should evaluate another traits to increase adherence in MMT.

Keywords : Influence of Personality, Opioid Dependence, Methadone Maintenance Treatment,