HUBUNGAN FAKTOR SOSIODEMOGRAFI DENGAN TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN SWAMEDIKASI DI DESA SENDANGSARI KECAMATAN MINGGIR KABUPATEN SLEMAN
Abstract
Self-medication means treating all complaints to yourself, with medicines that
can be bought freely by the community for the purpose of mild treatment
(minor illnesses), without a doctor's prescription / medical intervention.
Performing self-medication requires good knowledge because good knowledge
can create rational self-medication. This study aims to determine the profile and
level of self-knowledge knowledge and determine the relationship of
sociodemographic factors with the level of self-knowledge knowledge in the
village of Sendangsari, Minggir District, Sleman Regency. This research is a
descriptive-analytic study. The subjects of the study were 127 people aged 18-65
years. The sampling technique is done by the cluster random sampling method.
The research instrument used a questionnaire. Data analysis techniques used
univariate and bivariate analysis, namely Chi-square and Spearman-rho tests. The
results showed that the characteristics of respondents who did a lot of
self-medication were female with an age category of 18-40 years as much as
59.8% and status as housewives as much as 56.7%. The majority of respondents
bought drugs for self-medication at the pharmacy as much as 66.93% with the
source of information obtained from electronic media as much as 44.1%. The
results showed that 85% of the level of community self-knowledge in Sendangsari
was included in the good category. Sociodemographic factors that have a
significant relationship with the level of self-knowledge knowledge in the village
of Sendangsari is the level of education that is with a Pvalue of 0.010.
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