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. 2016 May 18;26(5):395–407. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-005099

Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of participants

Doctors (n=16) Nurses (n=16) Pharmacists (n=16) Technicians (n=16) Lay people (n=16)
Mean age (years) (SD in parentheses) 30.06 (4.11) 38.56 (12.91) 30.13 (8.62) 23.63 (1.36) 22.67 (3.46)
Gender (n)
 Male 5 1 6 4 3
 Female 11 15 10 12 13
Race (n)
 American Indian or Alaskan Native 0 1 0 0 0
 Asian 10 3 3 6 4
 Black 0 4 0 0 0
 White 6 8 13 8 8
 Other 0 0 0 1 1
 Multiracial 0 0 0 1 1
 Not available 0 0 0 0 2
Work context (n)
 Community pharmacy 0 0 0 9
 Hospital 10 4 13 4
 Outpatient clinic 1 12 1 0
 Other 1 0 1 1
 Multiple contexts 4 0 1 0
 Not available 0 0 0 2
Median familiarity with drug names 1 (not all familiar)—5 (extremely familiar) 5 5 5 5 1