AWARENESS OF BRAND NAME AND GENERIC DRUGS

DOI: https://doi.org/None
Issue: 
6
Year: 
2015

T.V. Potupchik (1), MD; O.F. Veselova (1), MD; L.S. Evert (2,3), MD; E.V. Okladnikov (1), MD; I.V. Gatskikh (1); T.P. Shalda (1); S.E. Storozhenko (1) 1 -Prof. V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky Krasnoyarsk State Medical University; 1, Partisan Zheleznyak St., Krasnoyarsk 660022 2 -Research Institute for Medical Problems of the North, Krasnoyarsk, 3Г, Partisan Zheleznyak St., Krasnoyarsk 660022 3 -Medical and Psychosocial Institute, N.F. Katanov Khakass State University; 68 Khakasskaya St., Abakan, Republic of Khakassia 655004

The results of a conducted questionnaire survey were used to study awareness and factors influencing the choice of brand name and generic medicines by different population categories, healthcare workers, and medical students. The study has shown that there is inadequate awareness of brand name and generic drugs among the population (33.3–60.0%), physicians (30.4%), nurses (57.1%), and students of a medical university (63%) and those of a pharmaceutical college (21.2%). When buying over-the-counter medicines, the population uses the most important choice criteria, such as a pharmacist’s advice and the cost of a drug; healthcare workers are also guided by the knowledge of the therapeutic equivalence of drugs, which have been obtained in scientific articles.

Keywords: 
drug
brand name drug
generic drug
bioequivalence

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