Prevalence of self-medication in children under-five years by their mothers in Yogyakarta city Indonesia

Prevalence of self-medication in children under-five years by their mothers in Yogyakarta city Indonesia

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Background: The trend of combating minor ailments at home in children is a common practice in Indonesia.When it comes to very smaller children like those of age under-five.Aims: Consequences can be worse if not managed well.

Self-medication among these children is not well studied in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.Materials and Methodology: In this study a questionnaire-based random survey among different areas of Yogyakarta city from the mothers bearing children if age under five.Questionnaire uunipelti were validated by three experts, for reliability test a pilot study conducted on 10 mothers, after that questionnaire used for data collection.

Data were analyzed by using SPSS Descriptive analysis to get frequency and percentage.Results: The overall prevalence reported is 58.82% (50/85).

An increasing trend of self-medication was seen among high-higher secondary schools education mothers with 35.3%.In income factor 2600K-3000K mostly found in the self-medication.

The residential area also seems influential upon this practice, i.e., 58.

8% rural people depends on self-medication while urban people only 39.2% involved in self-medications.Conclusion: As a large population of very small children is under this practice so, proper education of mothers especially in rural areas is needed for the appropriate trucf use of medicines.