TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN SWAMEDIKASI DALAM PENANGANAN DEMAM PADA ANAK OLEH IBU DI RW 08 DUSUN WONOREJO SARIHARJO NGAGLIK SLEMAN YOGYAKARTA
Abstract
Self medication or also called swamedikasi is an effort made by most of
people to reduce health problem like fever, cough, influenza, pain, diarhea and
gastritic before seek help from health professionals. The purpose of this research
is to determine the level of knowledge of people in Wonorejo RW 08 in
swamedikasi fever on a child.
This study used descriptive analitic and data was colected using
questionnaires and interview to 97 respondents. The questionnaire covering about
the knowledge of swamedikasi fever and the result is right or wrong. The level of
knowledge was classified by good, quite, or less. Data analysis conducted to
describe the knowledge of the respondents and to know the correlation between
sosiodemografi and the knowledge of the respondents.
The results of research suggests that the level knowledge of respondents
in Wonorejo RW 08 about swamedikasi fever is big enought ( 73,3%) and there
are correlation between the level knowledge to the last education ( p-value 0,000)
and income level (p-value 0,008), where as for the distance between the residence
with a shop or pharmacy unrelated (p-value 0,536). The factors that pushed
swamedikasi fever are advice from a doctor, advice from friends and based on
their experience.