Public understanding towards Know Your Medicine campaign and the management of medicine / Mohd Nazman Che Razak ... [et al.]

As the world going through a new decade, the bond between human and medicine are getting stronger as more and more medicine are discovered with the help of technology. As well said, the knowledge and understanding for the medicine taken are as crucial as having the life on the line. This is because either wrong administration or consummation CAN be fatal to one’s life. Therefore, our Ministry of Health had set up a campaign known as Know Your Medicine campaign, which is developed in order to educate the public about medicine they are taking daily. In conjunction, the main objective of our study is to examine the understanding level of the publics about the campaign itself as well as to provide the right drug information to the public. The method we have employed is by interviewing the respondent and by conducting questionnaires through all the respondents. The sample size for our study consists of 200 respondents that are divided into two main categories, staffs and patients. The obtain result shows that great efforts are needed to educate and improve understanding towards the medicines used by the community so that the uneventuality can be avoided.