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| التنسيق: | Recurso digital |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Zenodo
2024
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14609642 |
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جدول المحتويات:
- <p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Health care costs are rising day by day for which cost of medicines also contributing significantly. Cost of medicines can be reduced by enabling generic drugs to enter the market as they are 30%–80% cheaper than brand drugs. The present study was conducted to evaluate level of awareness, attitude and practices regarding the generic drugs in Interns and Pgs as they are the future practitioners & should have enough knowledge and should be able to educate their patients and clear any doubts about generic drugs . The acquired results of this study will give an overview. Conducting CME programmes to overcome identified knowledge gaps will help in increasing generic prescriptions and decrease prescription costs. <strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> A Cross Sectional Questionnaire based KAP Study, was conducted in Interns and postgraduates in medical colleges, in and around Visakhapatnam. Prior permission taken from the IEC, KGH, Visakhapatnam, for the conduct of the study. A structured questionnaire in Google forms distributed through what’s App groups. Total 202 completed responses with consent were received and were analyzed by using Microsoft Excel. Data summarized by routine descriptive statistics, and frequency distribution of responses calculated. <strong>Results and Discussion: </strong>Most of the Interns and PGs were aware of generic drugs and generic substitution and they have positive attitude towards them. Few knowledge gaps were identified in the areas of requirement of pre-clinical and clinical testing, risks associated with generic substitution in case of drugs with low therapeutic index, drug patents, “Jan Aushadhi” campaign. <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Conducting CMEs, Quality assurance of both brand and generic drugs and post-marketing surveillance improve prescription of generic drugs.</p>