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Household storage of pharmaceutical is world-widely practice, including inIndonesia. The purpose of this study was to obtain the pattern of medicinestorage, the sources and reasons of medicine kept in households. A cross-sectional survey was conducted on October 2011, involving 250 adulthousehold respondents, randomly selected from three subdistricts in NorthJakarta, and have approved the written consents, and interviewed withstructured questionnaire. Data were performed in univariate and bivariateanalysis with chi square test. The majority of household (82%) stored drugsat home; analgesic-antipyretic nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory was the typeof drugs kept by mostly (76.1%) of household. Out of 1001 stored drugs for-mulation encountered, about 31% were ethical drugs, mostly (64.8%) ob-tained from authorized pharmacies, purchased without prescription (71.9%),kept for future use (37.6%), and were leftover medicines (31.6%). Amongthe leftovers, 39.2% were ethical drugs including anti infective agents(31.5%). The leftover ethical medicines and anti infective agents could beindicated as inappropriate storage of pharmaceuticals and may lead to drugrelated problems.Penyimpanan obat di rumah tangga banyak dilakukan oleh masyarakat, na-mun tidak banyak informasi bagaimana obat disimpan dan digunakan olehrumah tangga di Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan memperoleh data polaobat di rumah tangga, sumber mendapatkannya, dan alasan obat disimpan.Survei potong-lintang dilakukan pada Oktober 2011, melibatkan secaraacak 250 responden rumah tangga dewasa dari tiga kecamatan di JakartaUtara yang dipilih purposif dan bersedia diwawancarai dengan menan-datangani informed consent. Kuesioner terstruktur digunakan untuk mem-peroleh data obat. Dilakukan analisis data univariat dan bivariat dengan ujikai kuadrat. Mayoritas responden (82%) menyimpan obat, dengan jenisobat terbanyak analgesik-antipiretik dan anti-inflamasi nonsteroid (76,1%).Dari 1001 produk obat yang disimpan, 31% adalah obat etikal. Sebagianbesar obat tersebut (64,8%) diperoleh dari apotek, dibeli tanpa resep dok-ter (71,9%), dan sengaja disimpan untuk persediaan jika sakit (37,6%) ser-ta merupakan obat sisa resep (31,6%). Diantara obat sisa resep, sejumlah39,2% adalah obat etikal, diantaranya termasuk anti-infeksi (31,5%).Adanya penyimpanan obat sisa resep berupa obat etikal dan anti-infeksimenggambarkan penyimpanan obat yang irasional dan dapat memicumasalah terkait obat termasuk risiko terjadinya medication error. |
