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Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines
The public generally believes OTC medicines to be helpful for treating minor ailments. From a survey point of view, that position often originates from feedback obtained when these medicines are considered as one broad category. The objective of the study was to assess the properties of 15 categorie...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10037583/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36961029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy11020051 |
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author | Taylor, Jeffrey Gordon Ayosanmi, Stephen Sansgiry, Sujit S. |
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description | The public generally believes OTC medicines to be helpful for treating minor ailments. From a survey point of view, that position often originates from feedback obtained when these medicines are considered as one broad category. The objective of the study was to assess the properties of 15 categories of agents across three dimensions—effectiveness, safety, and familiarity. Data were gathered via an online non-random survey in one Canadian province, where residents were asked to consider 15 OTC medicine categories in terms of those dimensions. Five hundred and seventy-five completed surveys were obtained out of 3000 sent. On the 10-point effectiveness scale, values ranged from 5.1 (Athlete’s foot cream) to 7.3 (headache medicine). For safety, the medicines were closely grouped (6.0 to 7.4). Cough syrups for children were perceived as less safe than those for adults. There was a trend in that, as product familiarity grew, so did impressions of safety and effectiveness. The results support other reports where OTC medicines are described as safe and effective, although safety ratings were not particularly high. Responders considered these medicines to generally be higher in safety than effectiveness. |
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spelling | pubmed-100375832023-03-25 Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines Taylor, Jeffrey Gordon Ayosanmi, Stephen Sansgiry, Sujit S. Pharmacy (Basel) Article The public generally believes OTC medicines to be helpful for treating minor ailments. From a survey point of view, that position often originates from feedback obtained when these medicines are considered as one broad category. The objective of the study was to assess the properties of 15 categories of agents across three dimensions—effectiveness, safety, and familiarity. Data were gathered via an online non-random survey in one Canadian province, where residents were asked to consider 15 OTC medicine categories in terms of those dimensions. Five hundred and seventy-five completed surveys were obtained out of 3000 sent. On the 10-point effectiveness scale, values ranged from 5.1 (Athlete’s foot cream) to 7.3 (headache medicine). For safety, the medicines were closely grouped (6.0 to 7.4). Cough syrups for children were perceived as less safe than those for adults. There was a trend in that, as product familiarity grew, so did impressions of safety and effectiveness. The results support other reports where OTC medicines are described as safe and effective, although safety ratings were not particularly high. Responders considered these medicines to generally be higher in safety than effectiveness. MDPI 2023-03-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10037583/ /pubmed/36961029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy11020051 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Taylor, Jeffrey Gordon Ayosanmi, Stephen Sansgiry, Sujit S. Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines |
title | Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines |
title_full | Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines |
title_fullStr | Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines |
title_full_unstemmed | Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines |
title_short | Consumer Impressions of the Safety and Effectiveness of OTC Medicines |
title_sort | consumer impressions of the safety and effectiveness of otc medicines |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10037583/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36961029 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy11020051 |
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