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Reasons That Lead People to End Up Buying Fake Medicines on the Internet: Qualitative Interview Study.

Hamzeh AlmomaniNilesh PatelParastou Donyai
Published in: JMIR formative research (2023)
In-depth insights into what drives people in the United Kingdom to buy medicines on the web could enable the development of effective and evidence-based public awareness campaigns that warn consumers about the risks of buying fake medicines from the internet. The findings enable researchers to design interventions to minimize the purchasing of POMs on the web. A limitation of this study is that although the interviews were in-depth and data saturation was reached, the findings may not be generalizable, as this was a qualitative study. However, the theory of planned behavior, which informed the analysis, has well-established guidelines for developing a questionnaire for a future quantitative study.
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