| Summary: | Most of the outpatient community has access to analgesic medication, especially over-the-counter analgesic medication. Both prescribed and non-prescribed analgesic medication should be consumed correctly to prevent it from being abuse. Therefore, this study aims to determine knowledge and attitude of analgesic use among outpatients in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM). A total of 220 participants from outpatient community at HUSM were involved in this study by answering self-administered questionnaire through physical form of questionnaire send to them. This study is one of cross-sectional study. The collected data was analyzed through SPSS version 27.0. The level of knowledge and the level of attitude of analgesic use were identified using descriptive statistics. Meanwhile, the association between selected sociodemographic characteristic (age, gender, level of education) with level of knowledge of analgesic use, and association between sociodemographic characteristic (age, gander, level of education) with level of attitude of analgesic use were analyzed using Pearson Chi-Square. Unexpectedly, most of the outpatient community at HUSM have a fair level of knowledge and fair level of attitude of analgesic use with 52.3% and 46.4% respectively. However, the factor that influences lack of knowledge and attitude among outpatient community was not identified in this study as it shows no association between selected sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, level of education) with neither level of knowledge of analgesic use, nor level of attitude of analgesic use. Regardless of the finding, an appropriate actions and strategies should be taken immediately to solve these issues and improve the knowledge and the attitude of analgesic use among outpatient community setting so that the community have better understanding and having good attitude of analgesic use and consume it in correct ways.
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