Summary information

Study title

Survey of Pharmacists and Undercover Patients, Madhya Pradesh, India, 2013: Special Licence Access

Creator

Powell-Jackson, T., London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Department of Global Health and Development

Study number / PID

8029 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-8029-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

The Survey of Pharmacists and Undercover Patients, Madhya Pradesh, India, 2013 sought to understand the scale and quality of the retail market for medical abortion in Madhya Pradesh, India.

Two types of data collection were conducted:

First, trained field researchers interviewed the person behind the counter of pharmacies in the state using a structured questionnaire on the pharmacist’s background characteristics, the sales, stocks and price of medical abortion, and the pharmacist’s knowledge of abortion.

Second, the actual quality of advice was observed using a mystery client methodology. One month after the interview of pharmacists, undercover patients presented themselves unannounced as a customer interested in purchasing a drug to induce an abortion. Within an hour of their visit the undercover patients met with their supervisor who used a structured questionnaire to note the advice given about dosage and directions of use of the drugs, potential side-effects, warning signs and the need to seek care, and post-abortion family planning.

Main Topics:

The scale and quality of the retail market for medical abortion in India.

Health care services and policiesHistory

Data collection period

01/09/2013 - 01/11/2013

Country

India

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals

Institutions/organisations

Subnational

Universe

591 pharmacists interviewed. 359 pharmacists (of the 591) visited by undercover patients.

Sampling procedure

Multi-stage stratified random sample

Kind of data

Numeric

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Grant number

PO 5695

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

2016

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

Commercial use is not permitted.

Use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. Users must apply for access via a Special Licence application.

Additional conditions of use apply:

Note: Data are only made available to researchers who have obtained ethics clearance from their research ethics committee within their institution. Please send confirmation and proof of ethics clearance to Timothy.Powell-Jackson@lshtm.ac.uk.