Abstract
Introduction: Self-medication occurs in many developing countries in the world, including Indonesia, which can cause a variety of global impacts, namely improper use that can lead to irrational use of drugs, late seeking medical advice, increasing side effects and drug interactions. Self-medication is related to the role of mothers in the household. The purpose of this study to find out the differences in factors that influence maternal behavior in self-medication oftoddler including knowledge, attitudes, income levels, and exposure to information sources between rural and urban areas. Methods: The study was conducted in 2 locations in Gemawang (rural) and Campursari (urban), WonosoboDistrict, Central Java Province. The population of quantitative analytic research with cross sectional design was 78 mothers with children in rural and 75 in urban areas. Data analysis used Kolmogorov-Smirnov because in the normality test the data used shapirowilk from the variables of knowledge, attitudes, income levels and information exposure with self-medication behavior, the result was p = 0.00 (<0.05) so the data was not normally distributed. The sampling technique uses purposive sampling. Results: There were differences in knowledge, attitudes, income levels, and exposure to information about mothers oftoddler of self-medication behavior between rural and urban with a value of p=0,000. Conclusions: The behavior of mothers in self-medication of toddler between rural and urban areas has a significant difference with knowledge, behavior, attitudes, income level, and information exposure.
Highlights
Self-medication occurs in many developing countries in the world, including Indonesia, which can cause a variety of global impacts, namely improper use that can lead to irrational use of drugs, late seeking medical advice, increasing side effects and drug interactions
The characteristics of the respondents included the age of most of the less than 39 years in rural (93.59%) while in urban (64.00%), the education in rural was lower which was 98.72% while in urban there were more those who were highly educated were 89.33%, the work in rural was mostly housewife (56.41%) while the urban were mostly self-employed 42.67%, and the income in rural was mostly less than UMK as much as 85.90% while urban are mostly more than UMK 90.67% (Table 1)
Based on the knowledge variable, the rural has a minimum value that is lower than the urban minimum value with a difference of 24 points, the maximum value between rural and urban has a similarity of 100 points with a lower mean value in the rural of 69.82% than the urban mean of 90.77%. (Tabel 2)
Summary
Self-medication occurs in many developing countries in the world, including Indonesia, which can cause a variety of global impacts, namely improper use that can lead to irrational use of drugs, late seeking medical advice, increasing side effects and drug interactions. The proportion of households that get drugs from formal health services (puskesmas, hospitals, clinics) does not differ between urban (16.9%) and rural areas (16.6%) (Kemenkes RI, 2013). The purpose of this study was to analyze the behavior of self-medication by members of rural and urban areas in Wonosobo District, Central Java Province.
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