A survey on knowledge, awareness and practices on medication storage amongst diploma students of UITM Pulau Pinang

Introduction: The level of students's awareness towards the medication storage have been explored.

Objective: This study focuses on how much the students knowledge on medication storage.

Methodology: This study was conducted at University Teknologi Mara (UITM) Pulau Pinang involving Diploma students who were selected for the study from August to September 2014. They were given a set of questionnaire to be answered. The focus of this study was to relate their demographic factors which are ages, gender and race with the level of medication storage knowledge. From the 200 filled questionnaires we managed to collect, we went through all of them and key in them into SPSS for analysis. Results were presented in the form of table and graphs. Expectedly, most of them (69%) were aware of medication storage practices and they knew the way of proper storage. However another 31 % (n=62) of the respondents require further awareness program to increase their awareness level on medication storage.

Conclusion: This finding suggests that a small percentage (31 %) of respondents are still lack in the knowledge of medical storage and needed to be educated via various campaigns. This result hope will help the health policy to their information on the knowledge and practices on medication storage among UiTM students at UiTM Pulau Pinang.