The Relationship between Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine Toward the Medicine Selection Action for Self-Medicine Among Students

Rani, Rubiyanti and Asep, Abdul R (2021) The Relationship between Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Traditional Medicine and Modern Medicine Toward the Medicine Selection Action for Self-Medicine Among Students. Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Science, 9 (1). pp. 17-22. ISSN 2321-9467

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Abstract

The attitude of seeking treatment is a person's actions when suffering from illness or accident. This attitude will vary from doing self-medication to seeking health service assistance. Selfmedication is an attempt by a person to self-medicate using both traditional and modern medicine. This research aims to determine the relationship between attitudes regarding traditional medicine and modern medicine towards the medicine selection action for self-medication among students. This research is an observational study with a cross sectional design. The sampling technique was carried out by using cluster sampling method combined with non random accidental sampling method. The research instrument was a questionnaire with the target of Academy Pharmacy students of the Poltekkes Kemenkes Tasikmalaya. Data analysis used Fisher and Chi Square test. Respondents with poor, moderate and good knowledge mostly chose traditional medicine in self-medication. However, the relationship between the knowledge variable towards the traditional medicine selection action is not significant (> 0.05). The results of testing the relationship between knowledge towards the modern medicine selection action are also not significant (> 0.05). The results of testing the relationship between attitudes towards the traditional medicine selection action were significant (<0.05). The results of testing the relationship between attitudes towards the action of traditional drug selection are significant (<0.05). The results of the study stated that there was no relationship between the level of knowledge towards the selection between traditional medicine and modern medicine. As for the attitude variable, there is a relationship between the attitude towards the selection of traditional medicine and modern medicine.

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