People’s expectations in Ho Chi Minh City when buying over - the - counter drugs to self - treatment

Minh Nguyen and Nguyen The Hung
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Nguyen The Hung: Ho Chi Minh City Open University, Vietnam

HO CHI MINH CITY OPEN UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF SCIENCE - ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, 2015, vol. 5, issue 1, 60-76

Abstract: This objective is to study determinants of people’s expectation in Ho Chi Minh city when buying over – the counter drugs to self – treatment. With a directly surveyed dataset of 403 citizens over 18 years old who purchased medicines for self-treatment, and using the quantitative method by exploratory factor analysis (EFA), the study found factors affecting people’s expectations when buying over – the – counter (OTC) drugs to heal themselves are past purchase and use of non-prescription drugs, experience treating common diseases with OTC drugs, seeking information behavior when intending buying non-prescription drugs, the impression of the-over-counter medications and the impression of pharmacist at pharmacy by Ho Chi Minh city (HCMC) citizens.

Keywords: Buying the-over-counter to treat themselves; Expectations; The-Over-Counter (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.46223/HCMCOUJS.econ.en.5.1.74.2015

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