IMPROVEMENT OF COMMUNITY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT GOOD AND CORRECT USE OF MEDICINE

Abstract

The desire of the community to find out how to use good and right drugs at this time must be improved, this is in line with the success of the therapy which will be followed when they receive the medicine. When people receive drugs at a pharmacy or hospital they tend not to want to dig up more information about the drugs they receive, they only get one-way information from the pharmacist who provides the medicine. The Community Service activity aims to increase the public's curiosity about the information received by the drug so that the use of the drug can be optimized because it is used properly and correctly. This service is done at Babakan Madang Health Center, for patients who will later receive the drug. The method is to conduct counseling on the importance of recognizing the drugs they are going to consume later, before the counseling is conducted, a pre-test is conducted first to assess how much the public's curiosity about the use of drugs is good and right. After counseling was given a post test with the same questions. The results of this activity were an increase knowledge in 79% of patients. It is hoped that by increasing the public's curiosity regarding the use of good and right medicine, it can help reduce improper drug use cases and wrong drug therapy, so that public health can increase. In this activity including a free medical check-up included blood pressure checks and blood sugar levels