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Generic substitution for prescribed brand medicines in Ethiopia: knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals in community drug retail outlets
BACKGROUND: Generic substitution is a good approach to reduce pharmaceutical expenses without compromising healthcare quality. Yet, the practice of generic substitution has been contentious due to concerns on quality and efficacy. OBJECTIVE: This study was aimed to assess knowledge, attitude and pra...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9295362/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35854313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08330-6 |
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author | Alemu, Sintayehu Tadesse, Natnael Mulugeta, Tidenek Assefa, Desta |
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description | BACKGROUND: Generic substitution is a good approach to reduce pharmaceutical expenses without compromising healthcare quality. Yet, the practice of generic substitution has been contentious due to concerns on quality and efficacy. OBJECTIVE: This study was aimed to assess knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals toward generic substitution in community drug retail outlets in Jimma town, Southwest Ethiopia. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among pharmacy professionals working in community drug retail outlets. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Knowledge was tested using a 3-point response format consisting of “Yes,” “No” and “I am not sure.” Attitude was evaluated using the 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1(strong agreement) to 5 (strong disagreement). The practice was examined as never, seldom, sometimes, often, and always with scores ranging from 0 to 4. The influences of socio-demographic factors on knowledge, attitude, and practice were tested using the Mann–Whitney U and Kruskal–Wallis tests as appropriate. P ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: The mean knowledge score of participants regarding generic medicines was 5.75 ± 1.79. Only 32 respondents (30.2%) of the participants were knowledgeable about the generic substitution. 54 (50.9%) of respondents had positive attitude toward generic substitution and 52 (49.1%) had practiced generic substitution. The year of experience had a significant effect on knowledge (X(2) = 9.14, p = 0.01) and practice (X(2) = 4.71, p = 0.03) of generic substitution. CONCLUSIONS: Our study found that pharmacy professionals working in community drug retail outlets in Jimma town had lack of knowledge about generic substitution. Conversely, an enormous amount of participants had positive attitude toward generic substitution and nearly half of them had practiced generic substitution. The year of experience had a significant effect on knowledge and practice of generic substitution. |
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spelling | pubmed-92953622022-07-20 Generic substitution for prescribed brand medicines in Ethiopia: knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals in community drug retail outlets Alemu, Sintayehu Tadesse, Natnael Mulugeta, Tidenek Assefa, Desta BMC Health Serv Res Research BACKGROUND: Generic substitution is a good approach to reduce pharmaceutical expenses without compromising healthcare quality. Yet, the practice of generic substitution has been contentious due to concerns on quality and efficacy. OBJECTIVE: This study was aimed to assess knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals toward generic substitution in community drug retail outlets in Jimma town, Southwest Ethiopia. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among pharmacy professionals working in community drug retail outlets. Data was collected using a self-administered questionnaire. Knowledge was tested using a 3-point response format consisting of “Yes,” “No” and “I am not sure.” Attitude was evaluated using the 5-point Likert scale ranging from 1(strong agreement) to 5 (strong disagreement). The practice was examined as never, seldom, sometimes, often, and always with scores ranging from 0 to 4. The influences of socio-demographic factors on knowledge, attitude, and practice were tested using the Mann–Whitney U and Kruskal–Wallis tests as appropriate. P ≤ 0.05 was considered statistically significant. RESULTS: The mean knowledge score of participants regarding generic medicines was 5.75 ± 1.79. Only 32 respondents (30.2%) of the participants were knowledgeable about the generic substitution. 54 (50.9%) of respondents had positive attitude toward generic substitution and 52 (49.1%) had practiced generic substitution. The year of experience had a significant effect on knowledge (X(2) = 9.14, p = 0.01) and practice (X(2) = 4.71, p = 0.03) of generic substitution. CONCLUSIONS: Our study found that pharmacy professionals working in community drug retail outlets in Jimma town had lack of knowledge about generic substitution. Conversely, an enormous amount of participants had positive attitude toward generic substitution and nearly half of them had practiced generic substitution. The year of experience had a significant effect on knowledge and practice of generic substitution. BioMed Central 2022-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC9295362/ /pubmed/35854313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08330-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Alemu, Sintayehu Tadesse, Natnael Mulugeta, Tidenek Assefa, Desta Generic substitution for prescribed brand medicines in Ethiopia: knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals in community drug retail outlets |
title | Generic substitution for prescribed brand medicines in Ethiopia: knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals in community drug retail outlets |
title_full | Generic substitution for prescribed brand medicines in Ethiopia: knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals in community drug retail outlets |
title_fullStr | Generic substitution for prescribed brand medicines in Ethiopia: knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals in community drug retail outlets |
title_full_unstemmed | Generic substitution for prescribed brand medicines in Ethiopia: knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals in community drug retail outlets |
title_short | Generic substitution for prescribed brand medicines in Ethiopia: knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals in community drug retail outlets |
title_sort | generic substitution for prescribed brand medicines in ethiopia: knowledge, attitude and practice among pharmacy professionals in community drug retail outlets |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9295362/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35854313 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08330-6 |
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