Abstract

ABSTRACT
 
 Counseling is a precious job as known as pharmacists have a provide pharmaceutical services.
 Counseling given to the publics for drug therapy, treatment, and the drugs with special dosage form
 is very important to increase publics knowledge. The purpose of this study was to increase the
 awareness of pharmacists to counseling provide to the public, and increase the public knowledge
 when using the drugs with special dosage form in Ketanggungan – Brebes regency. Fifty
 respondents who participated in this study with observasional cohort design. The data collection
 in pre-test and post-test prospective. Analysis test used is non parametric t test using Wilcoxon
 alternative test. The last education status of respondents was dominated by Senior High School and
 the monthly visit to the pharmacy was less than five times as 27 respondents. The results obtained
 from this study are p = 0.001 and the mean difference is 11.22 with pre-test score mean was 27,54
 and post-test was 38,76. There are significant results on the knowledge of the use of drugs with
 special dosage form after the pharmacist provides counseling.
 
 Keywords: pharmacist, counsleing, drugs, pharmaceutical care, knowledge

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