Nurses' Knowledge and Attitudes towards Biosimilar Medicines as Part of Evidence-Based Nursing Practice-International Pilot Study within the Project Biosimilars Nurses Guide Version 2.0

Medrzycka-Dabrowska, W (通讯作者),Med Univ Gdansk, Fac Hlth Sci, Dept Anaesthesiol Nursing & Intens Care, PL-80211 Gdansk, Poland.
2022-8
Introduction: The increasing availability of biosimilars can increase patient access to these drugs and reduce the economic burden. Nurses play a key role in the education, administration, pharmacovigilance and management of the side effects of biosimilars. The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitudes of nurses towards biosimilar drugs in different countries. Methods: An international cross-sectional study was conducted from November 2021 to February 2022. The survey was carried out using Computer-Assisted Web Interview (CAWI), sent by the CAWI panel via the website. Results: The results showed that nurses with a greater level of education felt most knowledgeable about biosimilars (chi(2) = 105.813, df = 2, p < 0.001). One-third of nurses with a doctorate and a second degree said biosimilars are used in their workplace (chi(2) = 48.169, df = 4, p < 0.001); most nurses with a second degree said that they had never heard of biosimilars (41%). Doctorate-level nurses thought knowledge is the key factor to increasing biosimilar uptake (97%). Conclusions: Nurses are not knowledgeable about biosimilars. Most would like to participate in training on biosimilars. This is a very important topic, because biosimilars are constantly evolving in medicine.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
卷号:19|期号:16
收录类别:SCIE
语种
英语
来源机构
University of Zagreb; Fahrenheit Universities; Medical University Gdansk; University of Rzeszow; Universite de Lille - ISITE; CHU Lille; University of Rome Tor Vergata
资助机构
project Biosimilars: Nurses Guide Version 2.0
资助信息
The study was financed by the project Biosimilars: Nurses Guide Version 2.0. The publication of the article was paid under the program Excellence Initiative-Research University (IDUB).
被引频次(WOS)
0
被引频次(其他)
0
180天使用计数
3
2013以来使用计数
3
EISSN
1660-4601
出版年
2022-8
DOI
10.3390/ijerph191610311
学科领域
循证公共卫生
关键词
biosimilars pharmacists knowledge interchangeable products health care EBCNP
WOS学科分类
Environmental Sciences Public, Environmental & Occupational Health