Abstract:
Filariasis is an infectious disease which is caused by worms filariasis and transmitted by various
species of mosquitoes. The disease impacted on the decline in work productivity of patients, family
burden and cause economic loss for patients as well state. One of the main strategies in
implementing the elimination of filariasis is by cutting the transmission with mass treatment in
endemic areas. This study aims to determine what factors are associated with compliance in Jaya
Rokan Hilir Public Health Center area in 2014. This study used analytic survey research design with
cross sectional approach. This study population of this study is as many as 2,352 people with a total
sample size of 341 people by using systematic random sampling technique. Analysis of the data
used univariate and bivariate analysis. The result showed no correlation between demographic
characteristics and health education with filariasis drug compliance (p value = 0.774; p value =
0.095), whereas and a significant relationship between health workers with drug use filariasis (P
Value = 0.049). It is expected that government, health professionals and the public to cooperate in
order to increase filariasis drug compliance on a regular basis in order to reduce morbidity due to
filariasis.
