Pharmacy Personnel Knowledge and Generics Uptake in Retail Pharmacies in Njiru Sub-County, Nairobi

Abstract

Low generics uptake continues to be a challenge in Kenya at just about 30%, which is below the 50% global average and just about a half of the Sub-Saharan African uptake of 62%, notwithstanding their cost-saving benefits, for reasons of misinformed perceptions of low quality, effectively hindering access to affordable medication and healthcare. The relationship between pharmacy personnel knowledge and generics uptake in retail pharmacies in Njiru Sub-County, Nairobi, is proven with a conceptual context of limited background information and lack of overt empirical evidence. This was a cross-sectional descriptive survey utilizing quantitative data randomly collected from 121 lead pharmacy personnel in retail pharmacies in Njiru Sub-County. The objective was to determine the relationship between pharmacy personnel knowledge and generics uptake in retail pharmacies in Njiru Sub-County, Nairobi. A corresponding hypothesis was formulated as H₀: Pharmacy personnel knowledge has no statistically significant effect on generics uptake in retail pharmacies in Njiru Sub-County, Nairobi. Descriptive and inferential (one-way [Welch] ANOVA) statistics were used to analyse the data. The results show that pharmacy personnel knowledge has a statistically significant relationship with generics uptake ((ղ²= .11; p<.05). The conclusion is that pharmacy personnel knowledge affects generics uptake in retail pharmacies.