Mohd Mazlan, Muhamad Farhan and Salleh, Siti Zuliana and Ab Karim, Mohd Sayuti and Mohd Amran, Nor Amirah and Abd Rashid, Rusdi and Abd Razak, Nasrul Anuar and Kadri, Nahrizul Adib and Zahari, Zalina (2022) Development and performance evaluation of automated methadone dispenser for drug addiction therapy. Journal of Testing and Evaluation, 50 (3, SI). pp. 1299-1312. ISSN 0090-3973, DOI https://doi.org/10.1520/JTE20210709.
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Drug abuse and drug addiction are becoming growing issues in most countries worldwide and are considered major public health problems. An initiative has been introduced in Malaysia via the methadone maintenance treatment program since the year 2005. Although the program has shown gradual success over the years by reducing the relapse rate of the patients, it has encountered several challenges in maintaining the effectiveness of the manual dispensing method done by the authorized health practitioners. Therefore, an automated methadone dispenser was developed to improve the effectiveness and comply with the requirements and needs of the users. In this research, the reliability and feasibility of the dispenser were determined through percentage error, accuracy and efficiency, and tests, respectively. Based on the performance evaluation, the findings suggested that the automated methadone dispenser has contributed to the decrease of percentage error to 3.42 %, 31.52 % higher accuracy, and 96 % better efficiency compared to current manual methadone dispensing practices.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia under Malaysia Research University Network, MRUN2019-4 A |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Methadone dispenser; Dispensing system; Methadone maintenance treatment; Drug addiction; Drug abuse; Performance evaluation |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering > Biomedical Engineering Department Faculty of Engineering > Department of Mechanical Engineering Faculty of Medicine > Psychological Medicine Department |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2023 05:00 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Nov 2023 05:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/42538 |
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