FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG BERHUBUNGAN DENGAN PERILAKU PASIEN BEROBAT KE PUSKESMAS

About 33% of Indonesian people who have illness visited community health centers. The rest prefered self medication, other medical cares, and traditional medications. The study aimed to achieve information on the characteristics of inpatients and outpatients in the community health centers, and also the related factors. The design of the study was using secondary data of Household Health Survey (SKRT) 2004 as sub samples of National Social Economic Survey (SUSENAS) 2004. The population were Indonesian people who lived in 30 provinces. The sampels composed of 16,021 members of household age 15 years old and more. There were 5, 387 household in which one of the members was Identified as an outpatient during the last 1 year ago; and beside as amount of 774 household which one of their member have been Identified as an inpatient since the last 5 years. Data analysis were conducted to the member, of household, who had illness and had been Identified as outpatients or inpatient, of the survey by Chi-Square test and multiple logistics regression. Results showed the characteristics of outpatients and inpatients in the community health centers, the majority were 26-35 years old, women, had elementary level education, and no high economic status, living in rural areas and also had no health insurance. Factors related to the medication behaviors for outpatients in the community health centers were those had job, high economic status, living in rural areas, and had no health insurance. Factors related to the medication behavior for inpatients in thecommunity health centers were elementary level education and living in rural areas. Key words: commumty health center, medication behavior, outpatient, inpatien