Sari, Andriana and Supadmi, Woro and Perwitasari, Dyah Aryani (2015) Proportion and Factors Predicated Self-Medication In Elderly Population In Yogyakarta. Fakultas Farmasi, Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, Media Farmasi.
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Abstract
Pharmacists should give more attention in giving pharmaceutical care services to the elderly patients, because the decrease of physiological function could result
more drug related problems. Currently, elderly patients are interesting to do selfmedication before visiting the physician. Thus, our study was aimed to understand the proportion of elderly patients who are interesting to do the self-medication and to explore the factors predicted self-medication behavior. This study was carried out by cross-sectional design. Data was collected by doing interview and
giving questionnaire to the 544 elderly patients in the pharmacies of Yogyakarta. Province which were chosen by proportional area sampling method. Data was analyzed descriptively and using the chi square test to understand factors which could be influenced self medication behavior. Most of the patients choose to do the self medication (63.6%) rather than directly went to the physician (36.4%).
There were 3 predictors of self medication behavior in our study, which were occupation, income and type of disease with the RR were; 0.823 (95% CI:0.701-0.965), 1.433 (95% CI: 1.173-1.751) and 1.027 ( 95% CI: 1.059-1.376), respectively. The occupation, income and chronic disease could predict of selfmedication behavior in elderly patients.
Keywords: self medication, elderly, predictor
| Item Type: | Other |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Divisi / Prodi: | Faculty of Pharmacy (Fakultas Farmasi) > S1-Pharmacy (S1-Farmasi) |
| Depositing User: | andrie sari |
| Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2019 02:03 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2019 02:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/12732 |
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