The content of patient counseling about interchangeable medicines and generic substitution in Finnish community pharmacies - a survey of dispensers

Table 1 Characteristics and representativeness^a of the study population

	Respondent dispensers % (n)	Target dispensers % (n)^b
Gender	n = 493^c	n = 3253
Female	94.5 (466)	95.1 (3095)
Male	5.5 (27)	4.9 (158)
Age, years	n = 496^c	n = 3253
≤ 29	15.5 (77) *	11.4 (372)*
30–39	26.8 (133)	27.3 (889)
40–49	26.8 (133)	30.6 (994)
50–59	24.4 (121)	25.9 (841)
≥ 60	6.5 (32)	4.8 (157)
Number of prescriptions per year at the pharmacy	n = 493^c
≤ 30,000	7.7 (38)
30,001–60,000	15.4 (76)
60,001–100,000	31.2 (154)
≥ 100,001	45.6 (225)
Location of the pharmacy	n = 492^c
Southern Finland	30.1 (148)
Southwest Finland	11.8 (58)
Western and Inland Finland	26.4 (130)
Eastern Finland	17.9 (88)
Northern Finland	9.8 (48)
Lapland	4.1 (20)

^aRepresentativeness was analyzed by the respondent’s age and gender^bInformation based on the register of the Finnish Pharmacists’ Association in January 2018^cSome of the respondents did not report their gender, age, number of prescriptions per year at the pharmacy or the location of the pharmacy
^ap-value = 0.009, Chi-square test

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