Self-medication is a person's attempt to treat himself, usually to overcome a mild disease, one of which is the common cold . Self-medication will have a negative impact if self-medication is carried out incorrectly due to lack of knowledge about drug information. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between knowledge level and common cold self-medication behavior in Pharmacy students batch 2021 at the Faculty of Medicine, Tanjungpura University. The method used is cross sectional and the total sampling method with of samples used in this study was 60 samples. The instrument used in this research is a questionnaire that has been tested for validity and reliability. Data analysis was carried out by using the Spearman rank test using SPSS. There is a strong relationship with the P value = 0.000 and positive (+) with a correlation coefficient of 0.556 between knowledge level and self-medication behavior Common cold on Pharmacy students batch 2021, Faculty of Medicine, UNTAN .
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