KAP of Pharmacist & Physician towards Generic Drug Use

ISBN-13: 9786203923278 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str.

Deepalakshmi Mani; Sajna S.J; Arun K.P

Opis

The study was aimed to appraise the knowledge, attitude and perception of physicians and pharmacist towards generic medicines in Kollam district of Kerala. A set of two different questionnaires was framed and validated by a team of physicians and pharmacist, which was given to the population that met the inclusion criteria. The questionaries were also designed in such way to collect the socio-demographic details of the participants. This study was conducted over a period of six months covering most of major hospitals of the study site. A total of 124 physicians and pharmacist was enrolled in this study respectively. The study disclosed the concerns of physicians and pharmacist regarding generic substitution: 67% percent of the enrolled physicians raised the need for bioequivalence study for generics, to ensure its quality was the main concern for physicians, and 47% of them perceived that generic drugs are effective as innovator drugs, while 83% of them stressing the importance to conduct awareness program about the use of generics, while the lack of knowledge among the public regarding the generics was a common concern for physicians and pharmacists, around 76% of the pharmacist.

O autorze

Mani, Deepalakshmi Dr. M. Deepalakshmi has more than 25 years teaching experience. She was actively involved in CPE Program for practicing Pharmacists. She was the Centre coordinator for NIH online course She has about 25 research papers at both national and international journals and presented papers at national scientific meetings, received best poster awards.