DAMPAK PENYULUHAN PADA PENGETAHUAN MASYARAKAT TERHADAP PEMILIHAN DAN PENGGUNAAN OBAT BATUK SWAMEDIKASI DI KECAMATAN MALALAYANG

Authors

  • Ni Wayan Eka Meriati
  • Lily Ranty Goenawi
  • Weny Wiyono

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35799/pha.2.2013.2391

Abstract

ABSTRACT
The efforts of society to heal theirself is called self-medication or swamedikasi. Selfmediacation
is usually used to overcome the complaints and minor illnesses such the cough.
The cough medicine can not be samed with all kinds of cough. This research is aimed to
identify the impact of socialization on public knowledge toward the selection and the use of
self-medication (swamedikasi ) cough medicine in Malalayang subdistrict. This is an
experimental research with one group pretest-postest design. The collecting process of
sample was done by random sampling technique with 150 respondences. The instrument of
this research is questioner about cough medicine knowledge comprises of 18 questions and
leaflet as the media. Based on the acquired information, the averagely score of public
knowledge in pretest is 64,55 and in postest is 90,11 with probability value (p) = 0.000 < (α)
0.05, so H0 is rejected. It shows that there is an influence of socialization toward the selection
and the use of self-medication ( swamedikasi ) cough medicine in Malalayang subdistrict.
There is a real difference averagely about the public knowledge before and after socialization.
Key words: Socialization, Cough medicine, Self-medication ( swamedikasi )

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Published

2013-08-01

How to Cite

Meriati, N. W. E., Goenawi, L. R., & Wiyono, W. (2013). DAMPAK PENYULUHAN PADA PENGETAHUAN MASYARAKAT TERHADAP PEMILIHAN DAN PENGGUNAAN OBAT BATUK SWAMEDIKASI DI KECAMATAN MALALAYANG. PHARMACON, 2(3). https://doi.org/10.35799/pha.2.2013.2391

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Vol. 2 No. 3 (2013): pharmacon

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