The Antibiotic Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Patients Purchasing Antibiotics without Prescription: Results of National Survey

Table 2

Methodological information about the conducted interviews.

			Central	North-Western	Southern	Volga	Ural	Siberian	Far-eastern	North Caucasian
Location of interviews	Mosсow	Saint Petersburg	Smolensk Yaroslavl	Arkhangelsk Kaliningrad	Volgograd Krasnodar	Saransk Kazan	Tyumen Chelyabinsk	Novokuznetsk Krasnoyarsk	Yakutsk Vladivostok	Grozny Stavropol
Number of interviewers	2	2	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2
Interviewer(s) profession	Doctor	Doctor	Sociologist pharmacist	Doctor	Doctor	Doctor	Resident doctor	Psychologist pharmacist	Doctor resident	Doctor resident
Work place of interviewer(s)	Clinical hospital; Medical university	Medical university; City polyclinic	State University; Private medical organization	Medical university; City hospital	Medical university	State university, faculty of medicine; City polyclinic	Medical university	Secondary school; Medical university	Federal university, faculty of medicine; Medical university	State university, faculty of medicine; Regional clinical hospital
Preferential recruitment method	Selection by posting information on social networks and professional network	Selection by posting information on social networks	Random selection among pharmacy customers	Random selection among polyclinic patients	Selection by posting information on social networks	Random selection among pharmacy customers	Selection by posting information on social networks	Random selection among pharmacy customers and professional network	Selection by posting information on social networks and professional network	Use of professional network to recruit
No. of interviews	14	6	27	9	17	29	10	18	9	10