Abstract :
COVID-19 is a contagious disease caused by a newly discovered type of
coronavirus. COVID-19 causes illness ranging from mild to severe symptoms and
the cause was not previously known. Multivitamins are supplements that contain a
collection of vitamins needed to help treat or prevent vitamin deficiencies due to
poor diet, and certain diseases. The purpose of this study was to determine whether
or not there was a relationship between patient characteristics and the use of
multivitamin supplements as a preventive effort to prevent COVID-19 at Apotek
24 Purwosari. This study used a cross sectional approach, namely an observational
study. The sampling technique used in this study was purposive sampling. The
number of samples in this study were 103 respondents. Characteristics data and the
use of multivitamins were obtained by questionnaires. Data were analyzed using
the chi-square test. Characteristics based on age of respondents with the largest rank
in the age category 17-35 years with a percentage of 74.3%, Characteristics of
respondents based on gender, categories of women more, namely 64 respondents
(58.7%), Characteristics of respondents based on education mostly at the secondary
level ( SMP / SMA / equivalent), namely 69 people with a percentage of 63.3%,
Characteristics of respondents based on work, most of them are high-income people
with a percentage of 74.3%. prevention of COVID-19 at Apotek 24 Purwosari is
the age of the respondent (p Value 0.701> 0.05), gender (0.245> 0.05), latest
education (0.394> 0.005), income (0.413> 0.05), it can be concluded that there is
no the relationship between age, gender, education and income of respondents with
the use of multivitamin supplements