ABSTRACT
The household drug management is common practice worldwide especially for storing ethical and OTC drugs that indicated for first aid treatment and chronic condition. Beside higher costs, accumulation medicines at home may be contributed to the lack of knowledge and behavior in patient, patient's family and environmental. Negative relationships in household drug management more likely risk for elderly who have many illnesses and polypharmacy, drug interactions and adverse drug reactions. The objective of this study is to analyze the factors associated with the Dagusibu drug management in Community in Central Jakarta with Home Pharmacy Care. This study used cross-sectional design and cluster random sampling. The data were analyzed using bivariate analysis , especially chi-square test. The result of multivariate analysis showed the variable were significantly related to behavior dagusibu drug management, namely variables were medicine dispossal box (p=0.019;OR 3.009); medicine storage box (p=0.025;OR 2.974) and support from family (p=0.001;OR=5.092).

Keywords: drug management, behavior, home pharmacy