ABSTRACT: The self-medication
is an effort conducted by the community to cure theirselves using medicine,
traditional medicine or others without health proffesional advice. The aims of
this study are to know healthy – illness
concept, to know local language, symptoms,
cause, prevention and curation of headache, fever, cough and common cold,
and the self- medication practice on the
village community. This study using qualitative design and data was collected
by depth interview-ing from 12 key informans at Ciwalen village, Warungkondang
sub-district, Cianjur district, West Java, in 1998. Key informans are the chief
of RT, the chief of RW, the teachers of elementary school, the health cadres,
and the housewives. Data were analyzed using triangulation methode and
confirmating the interview result to the key informans. The conclussion of this
study are The healthy-illness concept does not only physical aspect, but also
social culture aspect. The light illness - heavy illness concept depends on the
physical condi-tion of patient, the daily activity and the medication. The
community use generally local language nyeri sirah for the headache, muriang for
the fever, gohgoy for the cought and salesma for the common cold. The cause of
illness is commonly their physical environment, include bacteria for the
cought. The prevention of illness is generally conducted by avoiding its cause.
The self-medication practice generally use the medicine that were bought from
the retail at their village, some of them use the traditional medicine. Reason
of self-medication practice are light illness, inexpensive, time eficiency, and
as a first aid before going to the health proffesional or health center. The
self-medication practice is improperly done, because the community mostly
bought a small amount of medicine, so that the brochure of the medicine can not
be read.
Key word: behavior, medicine,
self-medication practice
Penulis: Sudibyo Supardi dan
Mulyono Notosiswoyo
Kode Jurnal: jpfarmasidd050005
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