Abstract
Objectives:
Fractures are loss of continuity of bone structure, not only cracks or separation of the cortex, fractures often result in complete damage and separate bone fragments. Fractures themselves have many different types in clinical terms, a fracture is divided into 2, complete fracture and incomplete fracture, where the treatment process and management are different. In the case of closed complete fracture, cultural and economic are still the main reason for patients to refuse medical treatment. Because of that matter, people are still reluctant to go to the hospital and prefer alternative therapy. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between therapy selection of closed complete fracture based on the condition of the socio-economic status of the patient in Raden Mattaher Hospital Jambi.
Methods:
The study was conducted retrospectively from medical record data of patients who experienced closed complete fracture from June 2018 to June 2019. The sampling method is using a Non-Probability sampling with a purposive sampling technique, and later the data was processed descriptively which included the patient’s socioeconomic status.
Results:
From the results of the research conducted from June 2018 - June 2019 in Raden Mattaher General Hospital Jambi, 125 patients were found with cases of closed complete fracture. From 125 cases of close complete fracture, as many as 91 patients (72.8%) are men with productive age who came from various fields of work. The location that is often affected is femur bone as many as 37 patients (29.6%). From 125 patients with closed complete fracture, we found that 48 patients (38.4%) prefer alternative therapy and 26 of them (54,17%) are from the Class III treatment room, 13 patients (27.08%) are from the Class II treatment room, and class I treatment room as many as 9 patients (18.75%). This shows the lower the treatment class, the higher the patient chooses alternative therapy.
Conclusion:
Socio-economic status is still related to the therapy selection.