UJI VALIDITAS DAN RELIABILITAS PADA KUESIONER TERKAIT SWAMEDIKASI OBAT DIARE

Abstract

Self-medication is self-medication with simple medicines purchased freely at pharmacies or drug stores

without the advice of a doctor or health expert. Diarrhea is a disease that occurs when defecating more

than three times with liquid stool in a 24 hour period. Validity test is a test used to measure the instrument

in the questionnaire and can be used to measure what should be measured. To create a measuring

instrument, theoretical studies are required. Reliability test is the extent to which measurement results using

the same object will produce the same data. This research method uses a purposive sampling method, which

is a method of collecting data based on considerations by taking 790 populations into 89 samples. Based

on validity testing in the questionnaire, the r table for 30 respondents is 0.3610. The results of this reliability

test obtained a value of 0.753, this value is higher than 0.6.