AHRI.Community perspectives on drug promotion on social media during the COVID-19 pandemic in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa 2022-2023
South Africa, 2022
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AHRI.Drug.advertising.workshop.coding.matrix.Nov.2023
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Rujeko Samanthia Chidawanyika, Janet Seeley, Julia Ndlazi
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Data file: Drug advertising workshop coding matrix Nov 2023
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Valid:
40
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Discrete
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255
Range:
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| Value | Category | Cases | |
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| ,P3: There is medication called Corozen | 1 |
2.5%
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| ,P6: Let me begin with vaccines | 1 |
2.5%
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| 1 | 1 |
2.5%
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| 2 | 1 |
2.5%
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| 3 | 1 |
2.5%
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| NT: Can you explain on that schedule 1..? | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: And again even if your were to purchase it | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: And with regards to the adverse and side effects and the terminology being used | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: Astrazeneca | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: I have seen my mother drink multivitamin. | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: I mean that I use the internet to do school work and sometimes adverts pop up on the internet and that is how I end up seeing Covid updates. | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: I think apart also from lack of information | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: I think the target was more on the elderly aaah maybe because in the first cases were of people of age 35 and above. Aaah I think even the approach when they enrolled the vaccine for the first time o-Sisonke | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: Now again the pharmas were too smart because there was not an ad coming from the company to say | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: Oh yes… That I it was adequate for the targeted group because it was on radio even though I did not know if it was coming from the pharmaceutical company or department of health | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: So what happen is a in a pharmaceutical field when they register medication with SAHPRA | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: That came late…that really came late | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: Through these interviews and free advertisement. Talk about this | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: With advertisement | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: You know there is some discoveries that are being made by accident. There is one Minoxidil …( interruption: we have a meeting here at 14:00. Note taker stepped out to deal with the situation). So we have drugs that are called Minoxidil which was actually discovered to control hypertension but one of the adverse effects was the growth of hair which later on was then stopped as hypertension was to hair growth. Second one is Celdonefille to treat heart but later on adverse effect was erectile disfunction cure. So here with Ivermectin its Antiprotozoal to treat the bacteria and everything and not really the virus. So | 1 |
2.5%
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| P1: aaaah ( cough) the traditional medicine as well will pop in and say that this drug does help this | 1 |
2.5%
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| P2: And I think maybe to add on that | 1 |
2.5%
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| P2: And I think that one was their eye opener. | 1 |
2.5%
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| P2: No | 1 |
2.5%
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| P2: Yes and I think its it (stutter on the word its) brought confusion to people out of i-health profession because they were not sure which one was good and which one was not good. Cause even the ones that were advertising they were not…I mean they didn’t have that confidence it was like someone was saying what he or she feels like is the truth or this was going to help | 1 |
2.5%
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| P3: I am of a different opinion | 1 |
2.5%
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| P3: I really don’t think so because aaah its Covid 19 and aaaah everything seemed as if it just started in the year 2019 when I think the…those that were involved were | 1 |
2.5%
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| P3: The department of health also has a website that can give you more information on health related issues. ,, | 1 |
2.5%
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| P3: To contribute to what has been said | 1 |
2.5%
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| P3: We also drank vitamins when we had flu to help our immune system fight the flu | 1 |
2.5%
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| P3: We obtain information from listening to people speak. | 1 |
2.5%
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| P3: Yes | 1 |
2.5%
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| P4: Radio station | 1 |
2.5%
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| P4: The World health organisation also has a website | 1 |
2.5%
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| P5: On social media | 1 |
2.5%
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| P5: We get this information through the elderly people in our family | 1 |
2.5%
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| P6: The truth of the matter is that Facebook is currently the most powerful source of information. On Facebook news feed you will always find Covid related updates | 1 |
2.5%
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| P6: Vitamin c | 1 |
2.5%
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| P7: Whats app has also become a contributor to obtaining information because there are now hotlines instructing you to send Hi on whats app and then they will update you about everything Covid related for the past 24 hours. It will update you on death cases and so on. That is how I obtain information. | 1 |
2.5%
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| When I’m doing school research I use google for doing assignments. That is where I get information. | 1 |
2.5%
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Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.