Effect of Education on Improvement of Attitude to Generic Drugs, an Experimental Study to In-Patient at Aloei Saboe Hospital in Gorontalo City, Indonesia

Abstract

Objective: The objectives of this research was to observe the effect of education and information on the alteration of in-patient's knowledge, perception, and attitude to the generic drug. Methods: An experimental study was conducted with a simple random sampling with a total sample of 45 people. They divided into three group, first group educated by the nurse, second group by the pharmacist, and third group by collaboration of nurse and pharmacist. The data were analyzed with Wilcoxon Sign Rank Test to verify the alteration. Results: The results of data analyze showed a significant alteration of knowledge, perception, and attitude before and after education by the nurse, by the pharmacist and by the collaboration of nurse and pharmacist (the value of p ≤ 0.05). There was no significant difference level of perception and attitude on in-patient whom educated by pharmacist, nurse, and collaboration of nurse and pharmacist. The significant difference showed on in-patient's knowledge that educated by pharmacist and collaboration of them (p-value 0.025). Conclusion: The results indicated that there was a significantly increased level of knowledge, perception, and attitude on the in-patient that have been educated about the generic drug. Education by nurse, pharmacist, and collaboration of nurse and pharmacist had the same result to increase the level of perception and attitude of the generic drug, but the best method used to increased knowledge was done by the pharmacist.