Hubungan Tingkat Pengetahuan Ibu Balita dengan Perilaku Swamedikasi Pengobatan Diare di Posyandu Tulip Desa Mojokumpul The Relationship between the Level of Knowledge of Mothers of Toddlers and Self-Medication Behavior for Diarrhea Treatment at Posyandu Tulip, Mojokumpul Village

Abstract

Diarrhea is a condition in which the bowel movements are soft or liquid, and the frequency is three or more times a day. In doing treatment there are still many people who use self-medication methods (self-medication). Self-medication can produce results if doing it is based on sufficient knowledge. Likewise when doing selfmedication in toddlers during diarrhea. Seeing the frequent occurrence of extraordinary events (KLB) in cases of diarrhea in toddlers, this makes mothers have to have knowledge and education to reduce or prevent the incidence of dehydration in children. as well as knowing how the behavior of self-medication or self-medication by mothers when their toddlers are experiencing diarrhea. The method used in this study using quantitative methods with the number of samples used as many as 102 mothers of toddlers who have toddlers and have experienced diarrhea. The data analysis used was bivariate analysis using a questionnaire as a data collection instrument. After the data is collected, the respondent's data processing will be processed using the SPSS version 25 application with the editing, coding, data entry, data cleaning and processing processes.