Information sources used by women in Finland who use hormonal contraceptives

Tiihonen, Miia; Heikkinen, Anna Maria; Leppänen, Hanna-Mari; Ahonen, Riitta

doi:10.1007/s11096-009-9344-6

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“…Previous studies have mostly applied single cross-sectional study designs 38–46. We found only one study that compared results from 2 years, covering a 7-year period 47. The consistent findings from the previous studies are that physicians, pharmacists and package leaflets are the most common sources of MI regardless of the research method, the study year, the country and the research population 21–47.…”

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confidence: 75%

“…We found only one study that compared results from 2 years, covering a 7-year period 47. The consistent findings from the previous studies are that physicians, pharmacists and package leaflets are the most common sources of MI regardless of the research method, the study year, the country and the research population 21–47. Consumers usually sought MI from only one or two information sources 28 34 39 43 44.…”

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Trends in the receipt of medicines information among Finnish adults in 1999–2014: a nationwide repeated cross-sectional survey

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ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to examine long-term trends in the receipt of medicines information (MI) among adult medicine users from 1999 to 2014.DesignRepeated cross-sectional postal survey from the years 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2008–2014.SettingEach study year, a new nationally representative sample of 5000 Finns aged 15–64 years was drawn from the Population Register Centre of Finland.ParticipantsThe range of annual respondents varied from 2545 to 3371 and response rates from 53% to 67%. Of the total responses (n=29 465), 64% were from medicine users (n=18 862, ranging by year from 58% to 68%).Outcome measuresReceipt of information on medicines in use within 12 months prior to the survey from a given list of consumer MI sources available in Finland.ResultsPhysicians, community pharmacists and package leaflets were the most common MI sources throughout the study period. Receipt of MI increased most from the Internet (from 1% in 1999 to 16% in 2014), while decreased most from physicians (62% to 47%) and package leaflets (44% to 34%), and remained stable from community pharmacists (46% to 45%) and nurses (14% to 14%). In 1999, of the medicine users 4% did not report receipt of MI from any of the sources listed in the survey, while this proportion had remarkably increased to 28% in 2014.ConclusionsHealthcare professionals and package leaflets had still a dominating importance in 2014 despite the growing number of MI sources over time, but still a minority of adult medicine users reported receiving MI via the Internet in 2014. Worrying is that the proportion of adult medicine users who did not receive MI from any of the sources became seven fold during the study period.

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Trends in the receipt of medicines information among Finnish adults in 1999–2014: a nationwide repeated cross-sectional survey

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“…Reminders could not be sent because customers were recruited anonymously. A similar method has been successfully used in a few earlier studies targeted at Finnish pharmacy customers [7,30,31].…”

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“…The study sample was also large, involving pharmacy customers across mainland Finland. The response rate of 40% is typical for this kind of method where it was impossible to send reminders [7,29,30]. There are no comparable statistics on Finnish pharmacy customers' characteristics.…”

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Reasons for allowing and refusing generic substitution and factors determining the choice of an interchangeable prescription medicine: a survey among pharmacy customers in Finland

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BMC Health Serv Res

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Background: Generic substitution (GS) was introduced in Finland in 2003 and supplemented with a reference price system (RPS) in 2009. Patients play a vital role in the acceptance of GS and the use of less expensive generic medicines. The objective of this study was to explore Finnish pharmacy customers' experience with allowing and refusing GS. Specific aims were to investigate the reasons for (1) allowing and (2) refusing GS and (3) to determine the prescription medicine-related factors influencing the customer's choice of an interchangeable prescription medicine. Methods: A questionnaire survey was conducted in February 2018. Questionnaires were handed out from 18 community pharmacies across Finland to customers ≥18 years who purchased for themselves a prescription medicine included in the RPS. A descriptive approach was used in the analysis using frequencies, the Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test. Results: The final study material consisted of 1043 questionnaires (response rate 40.0%). Of the customers, 47.9% had both allowed and refused GS, 41.2% had only allowed GS and 6.0% had only refused GS. Customers had allowed GS because they wanted to lower their medicine expenses (75.5%), or because the prescribed medicine (30.8%) or medicine they had used before (27.4%) was unavailable at the pharmacy. The main reasons for refusing GS were an insignificant price difference between interchangeable medicines (63.3%) and satisfaction with the medicine used before (60.2%). The main factors influencing customers' choice of an interchangeable prescription medicine were price (81.1%), familiarity (38.4%) and availability (32.8%). Customers who had allowed GS chose the medicine based on price. Customers who had only refused GS appreciated familiarity more than the price of the medicine. Conclusions: GS is a common practice in Finnish community pharmacies. The price of the medicine was the most important factor affecting customers' decision to allow or refuse GS and the choice of an interchangeable prescription medicine. Thus, customers should receive information about medicine prices at the pharmacy in order to help them make their decision. However, individual needs should also be taken into account in counselling because customers regard several factors as important in their choice of an interchangeable medicine.

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“…19 Thus, Miia Tiihonen found that women prefer health care professionals when it comes to getting information about the benefits of contraceptives and the adverse effects. 25 Women informed by community health agents are more likely to use contraception. To Lee, those informed by community health agents also have a higher contraceptive use.…”

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Family planning: formal health care providers' challenges in the district of Antananarivo Avaradrano

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Information sources used by women in Finland who use hormonal contraceptives

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Trends in the receipt of medicines information among Finnish adults in 1999–2014: a nationwide repeated cross-sectional survey

Trends in the receipt of medicines information among Finnish adults in 1999–2014: a nationwide repeated cross-sectional survey

Reasons for allowing and refusing generic substitution and factors determining the choice of an interchangeable prescription medicine: a survey among pharmacy customers in Finland

Family planning: formal health care providers' challenges in the district of Antananarivo Avaradrano

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