Relationship of sociodemography characteristics to knowledge level, attitude and behaviour of community self-medication during the pandemic
Abstract
Self-medication is always done by people as the first action when having not severe diseases such as flu, headache, cough, digestive complaints and pain. There are still many people who do not have enough knowledge about medicines and about self-medication during the pandemic. This study intends to identify the connection between sociodemography characteristics to the knowledge level, attitudes and behaviours of self-medication in the community throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. It is an observational analytic study with a cross-sectional model. The sampling technique used purposive sampling with the respondent's number 85. Univariate and bivariate analysis data testing using chi-square. The majority of respondents are aged 18-29 years (41.3%), with female gender (55.3%), married status (74.1%), work as private employees (34.1%), high school education equivalent (49.4%), with an income of Rp 1,500,000 per month (67.1%). The number of respondents with sufficient knowledge level is 45 (52.9%), with the right attitude as many as 58 respondents (68.6%), and the appropriate behaviour as many as 61 respondents (71.8%). The study indicated that there was a relationship between age, gender, status, occupation, education and income, with the knowledge level of community self-medication throughout the pandemic. There is no relationship between age, gender, status, occupation, or income with community self-medication attitude throughout the pandemic. As well as there is a relationship between gender, status, occupation, education, and income with the behaviour of the community self-medication throughout the pandemic.
Keywords: Knowledge level, Attitude, Behaviour, Self-medication
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