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    <language>eng</language>
          <publisher>Oriental Scientific Publishing Company</publisher>
        <journalTitle>Biomedical and Pharmacology Journal</journalTitle>
          <issn>0974-6242</issn>
            <publicationDate>2022-12-20</publicationDate>
    
        <volume>15</volume>
        <issue>4</issue>

 
    <startPage>2193</startPage>
    <endPage>2201</endPage>

	 
      <doi>10.13005/bpj/2556</doi>
        <publisherRecordId>46554</publisherRecordId>
    <documentType>article</documentType>
    <title language="eng">Patient Satisfaction Level with Self-Medication Services by Pharmacists During The Covid-19 Pandemic in Rembang District, Central  Java, Indonesia</title>

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      <author>
       <name>Angelica Kresnamurti</name>

 
		
	<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
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      <author>
       <name>Yunita Nita</name>


		
	<affiliationId>2</affiliationId>

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      <author>
       <name>Ayuna Nora Ashari</name>

		
	<affiliationId>1</affiliationId>
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		<affiliationName affiliationId="1">Pharmacy Study Program, Faculty of Medicine, Hang Tuah University, Surabaya, Indonesia </affiliationName>
    

		
		<affiliationName affiliationId="2">Faculty of Pharmacy, Airlangga University, Surabaya, Indonesia</affiliationName>
    
		
		
		
		
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    <abstract language="eng">Self-medication is a person's effort to treat symptoms of illness or disease that arise independently without consulting and taking treatment to a doctor. The purpose of this study was to determine patient satisfaction with self-medication services by pharmacists at pharmacies during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Rembang District. This research is a quantitative descriptive observational research with a <em>cross sectional </em>research design<strong>. </strong>To find out satisfaction with service quality, we used the service quality approach with <em>SERVQUAL (service quality)</em> questionnaire<em>. SERVQUAL </em>measures the difference between customer expectations and perceived service quality based on five dimensions of service quality, namely reliability<em>, </em>responsivenes, empathy, assurance, and tangible evidence. The research instrument used was a validated questionnaire and the research respondents were self-medicated patients who met the inclusion criteria of the study. Data collection was carried out in March-May 2021 in Rembang District, Central Java. Obtained 100 patients who have met the inclusion criteria. The results showed that the mean gap score was (-0.15 ± 0.086). The level of dissatisfaction in the five service dimensions were follows assurance (-0.27), reliability (-0.22), tangible (-0.12), empathy (-0.08), and responsiveness (-0.04) with a statistically siginificant difference value is service reliability (0.019) and assurance (0.021) &lt;0.05. The patient satisfaction level with self-medication services by pharmacists at the Rembang District pharmacy as a whole was 96%. The conclusion in this study was the level of patient satisfaction was satisfying.</abstract>

    <fullTextUrl format="html">https://biomedpharmajournal.org/vol15no4/patient-satisfaction-level-with-self-medication-services-by-pharmacists-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-in-rembang-district-central-java-indonesia/</fullTextUrl>

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        <keyword>Level of satisfaction</keyword>
      

      
        <keyword> Pharmacy</keyword>
      

      
        <keyword> Self-medication</keyword>
      

      
        <keyword> Servqual</keyword>
      
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