Existence of written policies on drug samples in the FMTUs and HSSCs in Quebec and drug sample users’ knowledge of these policies, by university: Correct answers are in bold. Not all percentages add to 100 owing to rounding and not all respondents answered all questions.
| UNIT | WRITTEN POLICY* | EXISTENCE OF A POLICY ACCORDING TO DISPENSERS | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN FMTU, N (%) | IN HSSC, N (%) | |||||||
| IN FMTU | IN HSSC | YES | NO | DO NOT KNOW | YES | NO | DO NOT KNOW | |
| Laval University | ||||||||
| • FMTU-1 | Yes | Yes | 4 (21) | 5 (26) | 10 (53) | 10 (53) | 3 (16) | 6 (32) |
| • FMTU-2 | Yes | No | 2 (17) | 4 (33) | 6 (50) | 1 (8) | 3 (23) | 9 (69) |
| • FMTU-3 | No | Yes | 3 (19) | 7 (44) | 6 (38) | 7 (44) | 1 (6) | 8 (50) |
| • FMTU-4 | No | Yes | 1 (4) | 9 (36) | 15 (60) | 4 (16) | 5 (20) | 16 (64) |
| • FMTU-5 | Yes | Yes | 21 (64) | 3 (9) | 9 (27) | 13 (39) | 0 (0) | 20 (61) |
| • FMTU-6 | Yes | Yes | 6 (27) | 7 (32) | 9 (41) | 3 (14) | 2 (9) | 17 (77) |
| • FMTU-7 | No | No | 1 (5) | 5 (26) | 13 (68) | 0 (0) | 2 (11) | 17 (89) |
| • FMTU-8 | No | Yes | 6 (38) | 3 (19) | 7 (44) | 9 (56) | 1 (6) | 6 (38) |
| • FMTU-9 | No | No | 0 (0) | 6 (50) | 6 (50) | 0 (0) | 3 (25) | 9 (75) |
| • FMTU-10 | No | Yes | 2 (6) | 8 (26) | 21 (68) | 3 (10) | 1 (3) | 27 (87) |
| • FMTU-11 | Yes | No | 1 (50) | 0 (0) | 1 (50) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (100) |
| • FMTU-12 | No | No | 2 (22) | 4 (44) | 3 (33) | 1 (11) | 4 (44) | 4 (44) |
| • Total | NA | NA | 49 (23) | 61 (28) | 106 (49) | 51 (24) | 25 (12) | 141 (65) |
| University of Montreal | ||||||||
| • FMTU-13† | Yes | Yes | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| • FMTU-14† | No | No | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| • FMTU-15 | Yes | Yes | 1 (10) | 5 (50) | 4 (40) | 3 (30) | 0 (0) | 7 (70) |
| • FMTU-16 | Yes | Yes | 4 (67) | 0 (0) | 2 (33) | 2 (33) | 0 (0) | 4 (67) |
| • FMTU-17 | No | Yes | 1 (7) | 4 (29) | 9 (64) | 3 (21) | 1 (7) | 10 (71) |
| • FMTU-18 | No | No | 0 (0) | 13 (46) | 15 (54) | 0 (0) | 8 (29) | 20 (71) |
| • FMTU-19 | No | Yes | 1 (14) | 4 (57) | 2 (29) | 4 (57) | 0 (0) | 3 (43) |
| • FMTU-20 | Yes | Yes | 4 (13) | 7 (23) | 19 (64) | 1 (3) | 1 (3) | 28 (93) |
| • FMTU-21 | Yes | No | 1 (5) | 12 (60) | 7 (35) | 0 (0) | 3 (15) | 17 (85) |
| • FMTU-22 | No | Yes | 0 (0) | 8 (38) | 13 (62) | 0 (0) | 3 (14) | 18 (86) |
| • FMTU-23 | No | Yes | 2 (10) | 9 (43) | 10 (48) | 0 (0) | 1 (5) | 20 (95) |
| • FMTU-24† | No | No | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| • FMTU-25 | Yes | No | 5 (21) | 5 (21) | 14 (58) | 3 (13) | 2 (8) | 19 (79) |
| • FMTU-26 | No | Yes | 2 (10) | 10 (50) | 8 (40) | 3 (15) | 2 (10) | 15 (75) |
| • FMTU-27 | Yes | Yes | 4 (17) | 7 (30) | 12 (52) | 5 (22) | 1 (4) | 17 (74) |
| • FMTU-28† | No | No | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| • Total | NA | NA | 25 (11) | 84 (38) | 115 (51) | 24 (11) | 22 (10) | 178 (80) |
| • FMTU-30 | Yes | Yes | 2 (13) | 5 (33) | 8 (53) | 0 (0) | 3 (20) | 12 (80) |
| • FMTU-31 | No | No | 0 (0) | 13 (48) | 14 (52) | 0 (0) | 4 (15) | 22 (85) |
| • FMTU-32 | No | No | 0 (0) | 4 (40) | 6 (60) | 0 (0) | 3 (30) | 7 (70) |
| • FMTU-33† | No | No | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| • FMTU-34 | No | No | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 0 (0) | 1 (50) | 0 (0) | 1 (50) |
| • Total | NA | NA | 2 (3) | 27 (44) | 32 (52) | 1 (2) | 10 (17) | 49 (82) |
| University of Sherbrooke | ||||||||
| • FMTU-35† | No | Yes | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| • FMTU-36 | No | No | 2 (12) | 10 (59) | 5 (29) | 1 (6) | 4 (24) | 12 (71) |
| • FMTU-37 | No | Yes | 1 (6) | 6 (33) | 11 (61) | 2 (11) | 1 (6) | 15 (83) |
| • FMTU-38† | No | No | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| • FMTU-39 | No | Yes | 5 (31) | 1 (6) | 10 (63) | 6 (38) | 1 (6) | 9 (56) |
| • FMTU-40 | No | NA‡ | 1 (4) | 6 (24) | 18 (72) | 0 (0) | 5 (24) | 16 (76) |
| • FMTU-41† | No | No | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| • FMTU-42† | No | Yes | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| • Total | NA | NA | 9 (12) | 23 (30) | 44 (58) | 9 (13) | 11 (15) | 52 (72) |
| Overall total | NA | NA | 85 (15) | 195 (34) | 297 (51) | 85 (15) | 68 (12) | 420 (73) |
FMTU—family medicine teaching unit, HSSC—health and social services centre, NA—not applicable.
* Based on the survey of HSSCs, FMTU directors, and drug sample managers.
↵† Health care professionals in FMTUs with no drug samples available were not invited to complete the users’ questionnaire.
↵‡ There was no HSSC associated with this FMTU in New Brunswick, as HSSCs do not exist in this province.