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Analysis of the influence of the level of education and work experience of pharmaceutical workers on interaction with teenage buyers
- Authors: Sinitsyna A.A.1, Denisova M.N.1, Litvinova T.M.1
- Affiliations:
- I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia
- Issue: No 1 (2023)
- Pages: 71-75
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://remedium-journal.ru/journal/article/view/1582
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.32687/1561-5936-2023-27-1-71-75
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Abstract
The study examined the attitude of pharmaceutical workers towards the purchase of medicines by adolescents. 185 people took part in the survey; 34.6% of respondents have never encountered difficulties in pharmaceutical counseling of adolescents. 58.4% of respondents rarely had difficulties in counseling, 7% of survey participants often had difficulties. Regardless of the level of education, only 7.1% of specialists (both pharmacists and pharmacists) noted that they face difficulties in pharmaceutical counseling. Experience also does not have any significant impact on the decision-making by a specialist. At the same time, respondents with the longest experience — more than 10 years — most often experienced difficulties (about 9% of cases) in counseling adolescents. The main difficulty faced by pharmaceutical workers in counseling adolescents is difficulties in formulating a request by a teenager (48.1%) and indecision of adolescents in making a decision (28.7%).
About the authors
Anastasiya A. Sinitsyna
I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia
Email: 001
Maria N. Denisova
Email: 002
Tatiana M. Litvinova
I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University), Moscow, Russia
Email: 003
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