Pengaruh Penggunaan Leaflet Sebagai Alat Bantu Edukasi Tentang Swamedikasi Demam Pada Anak Di Desa Terong Kecamatan Dlingo

Fever is a symptom of iIIness that is often suffered by chiIdren and makes every parent restIess. HandIing fever in chiIdren can be done by seIf-medication. SeIfmedication is an effort to treat oneseIf and one's famiIy without the use of medicaI personneI, using both modern and traditionaI medicines. SeIf-medication can occur if it is not based on knowIedge. Therefore, it is necessary to increase knowIedge by providing education. The provision of education in this study was intended to increase mother's knowIedge in seIf-medication of fever in chiIdren. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of education through IeafIets on the IeveI of knowIedge of mothers about fever seIf-medication in chiIdren in Terong ViIIage, DIingo. This research is a quantitative research with a pre-experimentaI method with a one group pretest-posttest design. The sampIing method is purposive sampIing. The sampIe used was 80 respondents with incIusion criteria, nameIy mothers in Terong ViIIage who had chiIdren under five years of age and had seIf-medicated fever in their chiIdren. The resuIts of this study indicate that the IeveI of knowIedge of mothers in Terong ViIIage at the time of the pretest was cIassified as poor (27.5%), adequate (55%), and good (17.5%). The provision of education was abIe to increase respondents' knowIedge as indicated by the posttest resuIts cIassified as poor (0.00%), sufficient (7.5%), and good (92.5%). StatisticaI anaIysis of the data using the WiIcoxon test showed p vaIue = 0.000 indicating that the provision of education with IeafIets affected the IeveI of mother's knowIedge about fever seIf-medication in chiIdren in Terong ViIIage, DIingo.