Relationship Between Patient Characteristics and Severity With the Use of Antiviral Drugs Among Covid-19 Patients at Rumah Sakit Ichsan Medical Centre Bintaro

Abstract

Introduction: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic infectious disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 that was declared in March 2020. The goal of this study was to see if there was a link between patient characteristics (age, gender) and patient severity with the use of Covid-19 antiviral drugs in Covid-19 patients hospitalized at Rumah Sakit Ichsan Medical Center Bintaro between July and December 2021. Methods: Through retrospective data tracing, this study employed an analytical observational method with a cross sectional design. The research data was gathered from Covid-19’s medical records. With purposive sampling, the number of respondents as a sample reached 107 patients. Results: The results showed that the age range of most Covid-19 patients was 26–45 years old by 46.7%, males were more exposed to Covid-19 by 52.3%, the highest degree of severity was included in the mild category, namely 62.6%, and the highest use of antiviral was favipiravir at 70.1%. The analysis revealed that there was no significant relationship between age (p value = 0.346) and gender (p value = 0.387) with the use of Covid-19 antiviral drugs, but there was a significant relationship between patient everity and antiviral drug use (p value = 0.005). Conclusion: Finally, there is no significant relationship between age and gender with the use of Covid-19 antiviral drugs, while between the severity of patients there is a significant relationship with the use of Covid-19 antiviral drugs.