All (n=1030a) | Respondents who had only allowed GS (n=417a,b) | Respondents who had only refused GS (n=60a,b) | Respondents who had both allowed and efused GS (n=486a,b) | Respondents who had no experience with GS (n=47a,b) | p-valued | ||||||
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n | %c | n | %c | n | %c | n | %c | n | %c | ||
Price of the medicine | 835 | 81.1 | 374 | 89.7 | 28 | 46.7 | 386 | 79.4 | 33 | 70.2 | < 0.001 |
Familiarity with the medicine | 396 | 38.4 | 108 | 25.9 | 41 | 68.3 | 221 | 45.5 | 19 | 40.4 | < 0.001 |
Availability of the medicine | 338 | 32.8 | 135 | 32.4 | 11 | 18.3 | 174 | 35.8 | 12 | 25.5 | 0.032 |
The medicine is Finnish | 198 | 19.2 | 63 | 15.1 | 14 | 23.3 | 111 | 22.8 | 6 | 12.8 | 0.014 |
Opportunity to halve the tablet | 190 | 18.4 | 74 | 17.7 | 14 | 23.3 | 93 | 19.1 | 6 | 12.8 | 0.524 |
Medicine pack | 166 | 16.1 | 60 | 14.4 | 6 | 10.0 | 89 | 18.3 | 6 | 12.8 | 0.193 |
Excipients contained in the product | 131 | 12.7 | 32 | 7.7 | 4 | 6.7 | 90 | 18.5 | 3 | 6.4 | <0.001 |
Manufacturer of the medicine / pharmaceutical company | 59 | 5.7 | 12 | 2.9 | 11 | 18.3 | 35 | 7.2 | 1 | 2.1 | <0.001 |
Tablet/capsule shape | 59 | 5.7 | 17 | 4.1 | 4 | 6.7 | 37 | 7.6 | 1 | 2.1 | 0.097 |
Product name / brand / name of the medicine | 14 | 1.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 3 | 5.0 | 10 | 2.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0.007 |
Tablet/capsule colour | 11 | 1.1 | 3 | 0.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 7 | 1.4 | 1 | 2.1 | 0.438 |
Other reasone | 35 | 3.4 | 10 | 2.4 | 5 | 8.3 | 16 | 3.3 | 4 | 8.5 | 0.025 |