Sari, Andriana and Supadmi, Woro and Perwitasari, Dyah Aryani (2015) Proportion and Factors Predicted Self Medication in Elderly Population in Yogyakarta. Media Farmasi, 12 (1). pp. 120-128. ISSN 1412-7946
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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: | Artikel Umum |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RS Pharmacy and materia medica |
| Divisi / Prodi: | Faculty of Pharmacy (Fakultas Farmasi) > Pharmacy Doc |
| Depositing User: | dyah aryani |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2017 02:12 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2017 02:12 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/7198 |
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