Extent of Filipinos’ Awareness in Identifying Counterfeit Medicines: A Quantitative Cross-Sectional Study

Counterfeit drugs have been purposefully and falsely mislabeled in terms of their identity and/or source both branded generic products. The use these can lead to reduced safety efficacy that may result adverse events. This study aimed assess the extent Filipinos’ awareness identifying counterfeit medicines, its association with sociodemographic characteristics respondents. A quantitative cross-sectional survey was conducted on 267 Filipino consumers residing Philippines convenience sampling, where a pre-validated online questionnaire utilized gather data about respondents’ characteristics, sources information, knowledge ability identify medicines. frequencies, percentages, mean, standard deviation, Chi-square, t-test for independence. Among six demographic only marital status (p-value = 0.000) had significant information regarding medicines while age 0.010) were found be associated results Chi-square test showed high level significantly moderate (p-value=0.000) since 73.03% sample 61.80% Therefore, need public education raising is essential, which necessitates involvement healthcare professionals.