Pengaruh Edukasi Bahan Berbahaya Pada Obat Dan Makanan Terhadap Pengetahuan Masyarakat Di Desa Sausu Tambu

Drug and food products continue to increase along with changes in human lifestyles including in consumption patterns, while the knowledge, behavior and attitudes of the community are still inadequate to be able to choose and use drug and food products correctly and safely. Therefore, community participatory efforts are needed in order to support the improvement of knowledge, behavior and attitudes of the community towards hazardous substances in drugs and food to protect the community from the incidence of drug and food poisoning. The purpose of this activity is to improve the knowledge, attitudes and behavior of the community towards safe drugs and food in Sausu Tambu Village. The method used in this activity is door to door education to the community in each sub-village in Sausu Tambu Village by giving pre tests and post tests to 270 communities with age criteria 17-65 years to measure the level of knowledge, behavior and attitudes of the community regarding safe drugs and food, The sampling technique used proportional random sampling using bivariate analysis. The normality test results are sig.<0.05 so that the data is not normally distributed. The results of the Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test are that in the knowledge aspect there are 257 respondents who have increased knowledge after receiving education, in the behavior aspect there are 74 respondents who have improved behavior after receiving education, and in the attitude aspect there are 159 respondents who have improved attitudes after receiving education. This finding shows that there is an effect of education on the knowledge, behavior and attitude of the Sausu Tambu Village community towards safe drugs and food. View Synonyms and Definitions