Pilot study: public awareness towards methadone programme / Husni Mustafa Mohamed Hir and Nurulain Mahadi

The level of public awareness towards methadone replacement programme have been explored. This study focuses on how much the public knowledge on methadone programme that is actually resulting many benefits. Our study was done at Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah. Klang which also own a methadone clinic itself. This study seems to be important to obtain a statistic from the survey done to the population. Oue study subject was the visitor who come to the out patient pharmacy department of Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah, Klang on November.They were chosen randomly and then we gave a set of questionnaire for them to answer. The focus of this study is to relate their demographic factors which are ages, gender, race, health related working field or education, and the mass media they used the most with the level of methadone knowledge. From the 305 filled questionnaires we manage to collect, we go through all of it and key in the data into SPSS version 16.0 software to get the result in table form and also graph form. Expectedly, most of them (76%) are not aware of methadone programme and roughly they have the interest to know about it better. Insteadt, this result will be fully used soon on how to improve public awareness and knowledge about methadone replacement programme. Thus, the government might achieve their real objectives of conducting this programme.