Factors Influencing Prescribing Perceived Utility of Drugs: Experiences from Iraqi Kurdistan
Introduction: Pharmaceutical expenditures have increased dramatically in most developed and developing countries in recent decades. Healthcare system policymakers have expressed concerns about the inappropriate, irrational, or harmful prescribing of drugs. Objectives: The attitudes of physicians...
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| description | Introduction: Pharmaceutical expenditures have increased dramatically in most developed and developing countries in recent decades. Healthcare system policymakers have expressed concerns about the inappropriate, irrational, or harmful prescribing of drugs.
Objectives: The attitudes of physicians towards prescribing generic drugs and predictors of perceived utility of drugs were investigated in the present study.
Methods: In this cross-sectional research, 77 physicians at different levels of job hierarchies, working in various public sector shifts, were recruited to participate in a survey of their attitudes toward prescribing generic drugs in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2018. The doctors were located in a general, an emergency, and a pediatric hospital. A self-administered structured questionnaire was designed based on the extended technology acceptance model for product use (TETPU).
Results: The doctors agreed that drugs should be prescribed according to their utility for patients (median [M] = 5.0; interquartile range [IQR] = 2.9). Most of the physicians mentioned that they prescribed drugs according to the patients’ needs (75.0%), evaluation of the availability of alternatives (69.0%) and consumer perceptions of a price (69.0%). The analysis showed that (1) the importance of physicians’ perceptions and their recognition of patients’ need achievement (P=.012), (2) the physicians' recognition of the actual use of drugs by consumers (P=.030) and (3) being male (p=.009) were associated with perceptions of drug utility.
Conclusions: The study’s results suggest that perceived drug utility in prescription writing is associated with physicians’ perceptions of need achievement and attitudes toward how patients actually use medicines.
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| spelling | doaj.art-9dcd4bbd0d2f4d0eb546f63e621ecc7f2022-12-22T01:20:40ZengUniversity of Minnesota Libraries PublishingINNOVATIONS in Pharmacy2155-04172019-12-0110410.24926/iip.v10i4.2316Factors Influencing Prescribing Perceived Utility of Drugs: Experiences from Iraqi KurdistanDeldar Abdulah0Karwan Ali Perot1University of DuhokPh.D Student, School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland Univesrity of Tehcnology, Auckland, New ZealandIntroduction: Pharmaceutical expenditures have increased dramatically in most developed and developing countries in recent decades. Healthcare system policymakers have expressed concerns about the inappropriate, irrational, or harmful prescribing of drugs. Objectives: The attitudes of physicians towards prescribing generic drugs and predictors of perceived utility of drugs were investigated in the present study. Methods: In this cross-sectional research, 77 physicians at different levels of job hierarchies, working in various public sector shifts, were recruited to participate in a survey of their attitudes toward prescribing generic drugs in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2018. The doctors were located in a general, an emergency, and a pediatric hospital. A self-administered structured questionnaire was designed based on the extended technology acceptance model for product use (TETPU). Results: The doctors agreed that drugs should be prescribed according to their utility for patients (median [M] = 5.0; interquartile range [IQR] = 2.9). Most of the physicians mentioned that they prescribed drugs according to the patients’ needs (75.0%), evaluation of the availability of alternatives (69.0%) and consumer perceptions of a price (69.0%). The analysis showed that (1) the importance of physicians’ perceptions and their recognition of patients’ need achievement (P=.012), (2) the physicians' recognition of the actual use of drugs by consumers (P=.030) and (3) being male (p=.009) were associated with perceptions of drug utility. Conclusions: The study’s results suggest that perceived drug utility in prescription writing is associated with physicians’ perceptions of need achievement and attitudes toward how patients actually use medicines. Article Type: Original Researchhttps://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/innovations/article/view/2316Prescription; drug administration; doctors’ attitudes; perceived utility |
| spellingShingle | Deldar Abdulah Karwan Ali Perot Factors Influencing Prescribing Perceived Utility of Drugs: Experiences from Iraqi Kurdistan INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy Prescription; drug administration; doctors’ attitudes; perceived utility |
| title | Factors Influencing Prescribing Perceived Utility of Drugs: Experiences from Iraqi Kurdistan |
| title_full | Factors Influencing Prescribing Perceived Utility of Drugs: Experiences from Iraqi Kurdistan |
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| title_short | Factors Influencing Prescribing Perceived Utility of Drugs: Experiences from Iraqi Kurdistan |
| title_sort | factors influencing prescribing perceived utility of drugs experiences from iraqi kurdistan |
| topic | Prescription; drug administration; doctors’ attitudes; perceived utility |
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