PENGARUH PEMBERIAN INFORMASI OBAT TERHADAP TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN PASIEN DI APOTEK UGM YOGYAKARTA

The lack of patient�s knowledge in medication may cause some problems such as ineffectiveness of therapy, reduction of patient�s compliance and even an emergence of overdose hazard when the medicines are taken in the wrong dose. Therefore, a research to evaluate the effectiveness of drug information giving in the promotion of patient�s knowledge need to be done. The results of this research are hopefully could be the reference among pharmacists to give drug information properly. Research requires questionnaire which is filled based on the answer of 100 patients who brought a prescription that consist of 3-5 types of drugs to Apotek UGM Yogyakarta from 10 March to 2 May 2014. Samples are selected based on accidental sampling. Pre and post test are given to evaluate the influence of drug information giving by pharmacist. The results then scored by Likert scale. Wilcoxon test is used to evaluate the influence of intervention which is drug information giving. Patient�s characteristics also analyzed with chi square to evaluate its influence on knowledge enhancement. The results show that 45 of 100 patients have a low knowledge level before intervention and 100% patients have a very high knowledge level after intervention. Name of drugs, dosage, and drugs storage method are informations that patients know poorly before intervention. Knowledge enhancement on 46% patients are high and on 41% patients are very high. Intervention giving is significantly (p=0,000) increase patient�s knowledge about their treatments. Correlation between patient�s knowledge enhancement and age characteristic is significant, the same result is shown on patient�s school level characteristic. But these significances are not found in gender, type of occupation and drug types characteristics