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Society for Women’s Health Research Survey on Women’s Perceptions and Communication about Sex Differences in Medications
1. How frequently do you ask your doctors or other health care providers about whether the medications they prescribe you might affect women differently or work differently in women?
| Always |
12.8% |
| Most of the time |
6.5% |
| Sometimes |
15.8% |
| Almost never |
15.7% |
| Never |
47.8% |
| Don’t know |
1.0% |
2. How frequently do you ask your pharmacists about whether the medications you are taking might affect women differently or work differently in women?
| Always |
9.2% |
| Most of the time |
5.7% |
| Sometimes |
10.7% |
| Almost never |
13.0% |
| Never |
60.5% |
| Don’t know |
0.4% |
3. How frequently do you read the label of prescribed or over the counter medications to see if they might affect or work differently in women?
| Always |
49.4% |
| Most of the time |
8.7% |
| Sometimes |
9.4% |
| Almost never |
5.3% |
| Never |
26.5% |
| Don’t know |
0.4% |
4. Do you believe medications can work more or less effectively depending on whether you are a woman or a man?
| Yes |
46.7% |
| No |
37.5% |
| Don’t know |
15.2% |
5. Do you believe side effects from medications occur...?
| More frequently in men |
2.6% |
| More frequently in women |
20.7% |
| About equally between women and men |
68.4% |
| Don’t know |
8.1% |
The survey of 1,516 U.S. women 18 and older was conducted by International Communications Research of Media, Pa., through a national telephone omnibus survey, April 4-17. The margin of error for the survey is plus or minus 2.52 percent. |
