The document summarizes a systematic review that investigated negative perceptions about generic medications among the general population, doctors, and pharmacists. The review found that a significant portion of each group, ranging from 20-35%, held negative views about the effectiveness, safety, and quality of generic drugs. Since medical professionals strongly influence patients' decisions about generics, their negative attitudes likely contribute to lower acceptance rates. More research is needed to understand how to minimize these perceptions and promote greater acceptance of generic medications.
The document summarizes a systematic review that investigated negative perceptions about generic medications among the general population, doctors, and pharmacists. The review found that a significant portion of each group, ranging from 20-35%, held negative views about the effectiveness, safety, and quality of generic drugs. Since medical professionals strongly influence patients' decisions about generics, their negative attitudes likely contribute to lower acceptance rates. More research is needed to understand how to minimize these perceptions and promote greater acceptance of generic medications.
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The document summarizes a systematic review that investigated negative perceptions about generic medications among the general population, doctors, and pharmacists. The review found that a significant portion of each group, ranging from 20-35%, held negative views about the effectiveness, safety, and quality of generic drugs. Since medical professionals strongly influence patients' decisions about generics, their negative attitudes likely contribute to lower acceptance rates. More research is needed to understand how to minimize these perceptions and promote greater acceptance of generic medications.
The document summarizes a systematic review that investigated negative perceptions about generic medications among the general population, doctors, and pharmacists. The review found that a significant portion of each group, ranging from 20-35%, held negative views about the effectiveness, safety, and quality of generic drugs. Since medical professionals strongly influence patients' decisions about generics, their negative attitudes likely contribute to lower acceptance rates. More research is needed to understand how to minimize these perceptions and promote greater acceptance of generic medications.
Perceptions of generic medication in the general population,
doctors and pharmacists: a systematic review
Introduction
Generic drugs have been available for many years and are frequently used to treat a wide range of acute and chronic illnesses. A generic medicine must be bioequivalent to the originator product in terms of strength, safety, and quality in order to be licensed for use. While generic medicines may differ from their comparable branded medicines in terms of color, size, form, and excipient chemicals, they must be able to demonstrate bioequivalence to the originator product in terms of rate and extent of absorption. Generic formulations provide the same therapeutic efficacy as branded medications but at a substantially lower cost. As a result, generic medicines have grown in popularity as a way to relieve strain on drug budgets, and they now account for a growing proportion of administered drugs.
Although the usage of generic drugs has increased, there is evidence that many doctors and pharmacists have unfavorable attitudes toward generics and are hesitant about prescribing them. Several doctors are opposed to brand substitution because they believe generic medications are inferior to branded medications.
POPULATION ● Condition To investigate negative perceptions about generic medicines and evaluate the proportions of lay people, doctors and pharmacists who hold these perceptions. In summary, the literature review shows that among the: general population, doctors, and pharmacists have the most negative perception when it comes to generic medication.
● Risk Factors Since medical professionals have a significant impact on patients' decisions to take generic medications, the negative attitudes of physicians and pharmacists are likely to be the barriers to a wider acceptance of generics. In order to promote the acceptability of generic prescribing and substitution, more research is required on treatments that can be used by the public and by medical professionals to minimize negative perceptions regarding efficacy, safety, and side effects.
● Demographics The population consists of doctors, pharmacists, and laypeople which are participants coming from various reviews publications.
INTERVENTION ● Technology Type - The type of technology used to determine and examine the negative view of the three population sample includes χ2 tests of contingency tables with a Yates correction using GraphPad QuickCalcs software and Microsoft Excel 2010 software.
● Methods to collect data
- One author did the initial review of publications through the titles and available abstracts for all identified citations to select relevant publications. Then the two authors did a full review of selected articles whilst using an excel to record data such as the country of origin and sample type (doctors, pharmacists, laypeople), sample size and proportions of participants that have negative perceptions with generic medicines.
COMPARATOR - In the statistical analyses, they compared the negative perceptions of the three sample groups to the total population or sample size using χ2 tests of contingency tables to come up with actual numeric values to show the ratio of each population group that presents negative perceptions toward generic medicines. - This study also shows the percentages of the population group that have negative perceptions compared to positive perceptions.
OUTCOMES - The outcome of the study is that the effectiveness, safety and quality of generic drugs are issues that concern a significant number of laypeople, doctors and Pharmacists. - Since medical professionals have significant impact on a patient's decision to take the generic medication, the negative attitudes of the doctors and pharmacist are likely to constitute barriers to a wider acceptance of generic drugs - Systematic search process identified 2737 potentially relevant publications. The initial review eliminated 2582 of these publications, including duplicates, leaving 155 articles for full-text review. Of these, 73 articles were put forward for quality assessment. During this process, 21 studies were eliminated. The publication dates for these studies ranged from 1987 through 2015, and included data from 27 countries. Additional characteristics of the studies included in the review are presented for the general population, and for doctors and pharmacists. - The outcome of this study showed that there are a significant number of people coming from the three sample sizes that have negative perception towards generic medicines and that is the focus of the study. The rough range of percentage was around mostly 20% to 35% which shows that the remaining percentages are showing either neutral or positive perceptions toward generic medicines.
TIMING ● Duration - It was released on December 15th, 2015. MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsycINFO, and Scopus are all part of the systematic search database. This was carried out on September 6, 2015, in order to retrieve the pertinent peer-reviewed literature.
SETTING - In the UK, there was strong opposition when plans were proposed to introduce generic substitution into UK primary care
