TINGKAT PENGETAHUAN SWAMEDIKASI TERHADAP DISMINOREA PRIMER PADA MAHASISWI KESEHATAN DI KOTA MATARAM

Abstract

Primary dysmenorrhea is not a disease but it is necessary to know how to treat it in order to treat yourself (self-medication). The implementation of self-medication is predicted to cause many medication errors due to limited public knowledge of drugs and their use. The purpose of this study was to determine the category of self-medication knowledge for primary dysmenorrhea among health students in Mataram City. This study is a descriptive study with a cross-sectional approach. Researchers in this study treated the subjects by giving them a questionnaire. This study is a qualitative study using a Non-Probability Sampling sampling method with Consecutive sampling, namely finding samples that meet the inclusion criteria, until the required number of samples is met, namely 206 samples. The results of the study are, respondents with a high level of knowledge are 150 respondents (72.8%), those with a moderate level of knowledge are 47 respondents (22.8%), and those with a low level of knowledge are 9 respondents (4.4%). The conclusion is that the level of self-medication knowledge regarding primary dysmenorrhea among female health students in Mataram City is classified as high. The author suggests that future researchers conduct research on the effect of respondents' level of medication knowledge on primary dysmenorrhea.