MATHEMATIC MODEL OF PHARMACEUTICAL CARE TO ENCOURAGE CLIENT TO BE RATIONAL IN USE NSAIDs BY SELF MEDICATION

Liza Pristianty, Fasich, Soemiati

Pharmaceutical care is a practice-oriented pharmacy services to clients, in self medication expected to provide appropriate solutions to the problems faced by clients in order to achieve a therapeutic effect optimal.Now self medication more done by individuals to relieve health problem. There are many actions self medication done in the community , but not many people are aware the rational treatment. Self medication behavior is determined by intention to perform self medication behave determined by attitude, subjective norms and perceived control. The drugs widely used in self medication is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. This study wanted to build a mathematics model of pharmaceutical care that may be achieved rational self medication. Research will be conducted on clients who come to the pharmacy by self medication in Surabaya. Research methods are observational, data collection through surveys from 455 pharmacy clients through 89 pharmacies, prospective cross sectional study. The data were analysis by structured equation model. The results showed that pharmaceutical care is to build the attitude, subjective norm and perceived control by estimated value of 0.251; 0.530; and 0.493. behavior in self medication NSAIDs rational is not significantly influenced by client intence the estimated value of -0.03 , but can be formed through pharmaceutical care by pharmacist and client’s attitude with estimated value 0.280 and 0,211. The conclusion of this study is pharmaceutical care should be carried out intensively in the service of NSAIDs self-medication by a pharmacist in pharmacy.