Kaiser Health Poll Report Survey [February, 2005]
As a result of seeing an ad for a prescription medicine, have you ever talked with a doctor about the specific medicine you saw or heard advertised, or not?
Based on those who have seen or heard ads (n=1097)
26 | Yes |
74 | No |
* | Don’t know/Refused |
When you talked to your doctor about a prescription medicine you saw advertised please tell me if your doctor did any of the following. Did your doctor….
Based on those who talked with dr. about advertised medicine (n=286)
| Yes | No | DK/ Ref. |
a. Give you the prescription drug you asked about | 52 | 47 | 1 |
b. Recommend a different prescription drug | 44 | 54 | 2 |
c. Recommend an over-the-counter drug | 34 | 65 | 1 |
d. Recommend no drug | 26 | 72 | 2 |
e. Recommend that you make changes in your behavior or lifestyle | 57 | 42 | 1 |
f. Something else | 19 | 78 | 3 |
Survey by Kaiser Family Foundation. Methodology: Fieldwork conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates, February 3-6, 2005 and based on telephone interviews with a national adult sample of 1,201.