THE CORRELATION OF PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE TO THE RATIONALITY OF THE USE OF ANTIBIOTIC DRUGS IN THE MELAYU VILLAGE NORTH BARITO

Abstract

Antibiotics are drugs that are prescribed quite high because cases of infection in the world are still high .The use of antibiotics that are not rational to increase the number occurrence of resistance of bacteria . The purpose of this study to determine the correlation of knowledge society against the rationality of the use of antibiotics in the village Malays . M etode used observational analytic with design cross sectional using the method of taking samples with technique purposive sampling instrument collecting data used in research this is the google form . The results obtained that the level of knowledge of respondents in the good category was 15 people (15.2%), 25 people were sufficient (25.3%) and 59 people were less (59.6%). The results of the use of antibiotics is rational by respondents as many as 5 people (5%) and not rational as many as 94 people (94%). And the results of the Spearman Rho test obtained are a significance value of 0.000, the correlation coefficient is 0.485 and the direction of the correlation is positive . There is a relationship between the level of knowledge on the use of antibiotics in the community in Kelurahan Melayu . Knowledge about antibiotics Air relation to the use of antibiotics that is rational . It is necessary to add information about the rational use of antibiotics by means of counseling ,seminars and other information sharing .