Validation of A New Questionnaire Assessing Knowledge and Perceptions about Combination between Herbal and Conventional Medicine
Abstract: Indonesia is a
country which has great potential of herbal medicine, although combination between
herbal and conventional medicine can be benefi cial or harmful. Knowledge and
perceptions about that combination are needed to achieve the best treatment eff
ect. To validate a new instrument assessing knowledge and perceptions of
patients about combination between herbal and conventional medicine. This study
used cross sectional study which was conducted in some of pharmacy inYogyakarta.
Inclusion criterias of the subject were people who visited to the pharmacy with
ages above 18 years old and below 65 years old, also had used the combination
of herbal and conventional medicine for minimal a month to achieve the same
goal of treatment. Items of the questionnaire were developed by existing
literatures and added some new items. The content validity had been conducted
by some experts. Analysis statistic with bivariate correlations was used to
determine the validity and reliability of the questionnaire. Subjects who met
the inclusion criteria were 30 people, which are consisted of 15 of healthy
people and the rest are people who use the combination. In the domain of
knowledge, there are 16 valid questions over 19 questions. Reliability had been
calculated by 16 questions and it was reliable (cronbach alpha 0.863). In the
perception domain, there were 8 valid questions. The reliability showed that
the questions were reliable (cronbach alpha 0.862). There are 3 invalid
questions because all ofthe answer is similar. Our study provides that this new
questionnaire was valid and reliable to assessknowledge and perception of the
patient who use combination of herbal and conventional medicine.
Keywords: Questionnaire,
herbal, conventional, validation
Penulis: I.N.FARIDAH,
M.N.C.PUTRI, D.A.PERWITASARI
Kode Jurnal: jpfarmasidd170193
