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Healthy Skepticism Library item: 15178

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Publication type: Journal Article

Crigger N, Barnes K, Junko A, Rahal S, Sheek C.
Nurse practitioners' perceptions and participation in pharmaceutical marketing.
J Adv Nurs 2009 Mar; 65:(3):525-33
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121676372/abstract


Abstract:

AIM: This paper reports on a study conducted to describe family nurse practitioners’ perceptions towards and participation in pharmaceutical marketing and to explore the relationships among related variables.

BACKGROUND: The pharmaceutical industry’s intense global marketing strategies have resulted in widespread concern in healthcare professionals and professional groups, sectors of the public in many countries, and in the World Health Organization. Research on healthcare providers’ participation in pharmaceutical marketing indicates that these relationships are conflicts of interests and compromise healthcare providers’ prescribing practices and trust. Nursing, as a discipline, appears to be slow to address the impact of pharmaceutical marketing on nursing practice.

METHOD: Questionnaires about perceptions and participation in pharmaceutical marketing were completed by a random sample of 84 licensed family nurse practitioners in the United States of America in 2007.

FINDINGS: Family nurse practitioners viewed pharmaceutical company marketing uncritically as educational and beneficial. They also perceived other providers but not themselves as influenced by pharmaceutical marketing. The findings supported those found in previous research with nurses and physicians.

CONCLUSION: Lack of education, participation in marketing and psychological and social responses may impede family nurse practitioners’ ability to respond critically and appropriately to marketing strategies and the conflict of interest it creates.

 

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Cases of wilful misrepresentation are a rarity in medical advertising. For every advertisement in which nonexistent doctors are called on to testify or deliberately irrelevant references are bunched up in [fine print], you will find a hundred or more whose greatest offenses are unquestioning enthusiasm and the skill to communicate it.

The best defence the physician can muster against this kind of advertising is a healthy skepticism and a willingness, not always apparent in the past, to do his homework. He must cultivate a flair for spotting the logical loophole, the invalid clinical trial, the unreliable or meaningless testimonial, the unneeded improvement and the unlikely claim. Above all, he must develop greater resistance to the lure of the fashionable and the new.
- Pierre R. Garai (advertising executive) 1963