Ma Shuli, Wang Juping, Zhang Shengnan, et al. Investigation and Analysis of Cross-Borde Shopping of Children’s Drugs in China. [J]. 27(12):29-33(2021)
DOI:
Ma Shuli, Wang Juping, Zhang Shengnan, et al. Investigation and Analysis of Cross-Borde Shopping of Children’s Drugs in China. [J]. 27(12):29-33(2021) DOI: 10.13407/j.cnki.jpp.1672-108X.2021.12.009.
Investigation and Analysis of Cross-Borde Shopping of Children’s Drugs in China
Objective: To investigate the current status of cross-borde shopping of children’s drugs in China
and to analyze the problems in the application of children’s drugs from cross-borde shopping. Methods: Electronic questionnaire was used to collect the status and application of children’s drugs from cross-borde shopping in China
and to analyze parents’ awareness and the risk of parents’ application behavior of children’s drugs from cross-borde shopping. Results: The total number of participants in the survey was 6
202 cases
and 1
057 cases (17.04%) had the experience with cross-borde shopping of children’s drugs. The survey data showed that the age of children
education level of guardians and occupation of guardians significantly affected the behavior of guardians in cross-borde shopping of children’s drugs. Children aged from 1 to 3 years (22.33%) and from 4 to 7 years (21.11%) had higher proportion of behavior of guardians in cross-borde shopping of children’s drugs. The educational level of guardians significantly affected the cross-borde shopping of children’s drugs
with the highest proportion of cross-borde shopping for people with the master’s degree or above (22.08%). Among the guardians
civil servants and public institution staff were the profession with the highest proportion of cross-borde shopping (23.06%). Among those with cross-borde shopping experience
21.1% of guardians could fully understand the drug instructions
60.36% could only understand part of the drug instructions
9.84% could not understand the drug instructions completely
and 8.7% did not read the drug instructions. Conclusion: There is a great deal of blindness in the cross-borde shopping of children’s drugs
and most of the cross-borde shopping drugs are self-prepared drugs. The lack of professional guidance on indications and precautions for children’s drug application in guardians may lead to higher risks of drug application