INISIASI APOTEKER KELUARGA UNGGULAN DENGAN PENDEKATAN REAL TEACHING ACTION DI DESA SENDANG

Abstract

Rational drug use is a very warm discussion in the health care system in Indonesia. This is possible
because of reports of the occurrence of errors in the selection and use of drugs freely by the
community without based on adequate knowledge, causing undesirable side effects. Real Teaching
Action (RTA) is an effort to improve people's knowledge through short learning activities about
drug information. The information conveyed among others is about the classification of drugs, the
steps to use the drug "DAGUSIBU" (Get, Use, Save and Dispose of), self-medication and route of
administration of the drug. The measurement method used is a pretest and posttest design to
measure the success rate of the program which is divided into 5 measurements. The location used
as an activity is in Sendang Village, Purwantoro Subdistrict, Wonogiri Regency, Central Java, with
the target of housewives who are then referred to as AKU (Superior Family Pharmacists) cadres.
The results of the activity are known to have increased the knowledge of respondents through
pretest-posttest with a percentage value of 27.19% - 97%. So it can be concluded that the RTA
approach is able to provide a good understanding of AKU cadre training