Relationship Between Education Level and Cough Self Medication Behavior in the Community of Talang Segegah Village Renah Pembarab District, Merangin Regency

Abstract

Cough is a symptom in the respiratory tract where the protective reflex expels foreign objects, in general people treat coughs with self-medication. Self-medication is the use of herbal or traditional medicine to treat diseases that can be recognized by themselves. The difference in education level causes differences in the use of individual health services related to attitudes, values ??and knowledge. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between education level and cough self-medication behavior. This research method is non-experimental with a descriptive method. The sampling technique was carried out using non-random sampling with the type of accident sampling. The results of the study showed that the relationship between education level and respondent knowledge obtained good results, the relationship between education level and respondent attitudes had good results, while the relationship between education level and respondent actions had quite good results. The conclusion of this study is that there is no correlation between education level and cough self-medication behavior in the Taang Segegah Village Community, Renah Pembarap District, Merangin Regency..

Keywords: Education, Self-medication, Cough