Self Medication Drugs During The Covid-19 Pandemic At Pharmacy

Fina Aryani; Annisa Yuri Amalia; Meiriza Djohari; Anugrah Humairah

doi:10.36929/jpk.v13i2.846

Fina Aryani Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Farmasi Riau
Annisa Yuri Amalia Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Farmasi Riau
Meiriza Djohari Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Farmasi Riau
Anugrah Humairah Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan PMC Pekanbaru

DOI: https://doi.org/10.36929/jpk.v13i2.846

Keywords: Covid-19, Drug, Pharmacy, Self-Medication

Abstract

Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-Cov2) with a high mortality rate. Self-medication is the behavior of taking self-medication based on a diagnosis of the symptoms of illness that occurs. This study aims to determine the profile of the use of self-medication drugs that are often used to treat symptoms similar to COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Pekanbaru City Pharmacy, Riau Province in the period of July 2021. The type of research is observational with a descriptive design and concurrent data collection. The population is the respondent who self-medicates in a pharmacy in Pekanbaru. The sample is 100 respondents who have met the inclusion criteria with a purposive sampling technique. The results showed that the most used drugs were for fever symptoms (27.8%), the most pharmacological class of drugs purchased by patients were antipyretics-analgesics (32.5%), the most used dosage forms were tablets (58, 7%). During the self-medication process, patients most often received information from health workers (35.4%). Based on gender, the most patients who self-medicated were women (56%), the age of the most patients was around 17-25 years (46%), while from the last education level the most patients were high school/equivalent (44%) with the type of work as private employees (48%). Drugs that are often purchased during the Covid-19 pandemic are analgesics-antipyretic.

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