Table 2.

Perception of generics based on respondents’ personal experience (n = 580)

Experience regarding the cheaper equivalents of original medicinesa	n	%
Patients who have used generic medicines and think that they are usually of good quality	355	61
Patients who have used generic medicines and think that they are usually of very good quality.	117	20
Patients who have used generic medicines and think that they are usually of bad quality	48	8
Patients who have used generic medicines and think that they are usually of very bad quality	60	10

^aRespondents who have never used a cheaper generic substitute for an original drug were excluded from the analysis