Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

Quality of life among medical representatives in India

Anjali J Anil, Pradeep B

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Introduction: Medical representatives (MRs) are the backbone of any pharmaceutical company. They face several hurdles in their work which can impact their quality of life (QOL). Thus we performed this study since there is paucity of such studies done among MRs in India.

Methodology: Seventy MRs from various pharmaceutical companies who attended PSG Hospital and Lakshmi Skin & cosmetology clinic, Coimbatore participated in this study. The demographic details were collected using a structured questionnaire.  The details regarding QOL was collected using ief version of WHO‘s QOL scale (WHOQOL–BREF). The data was statistically analysed.

Results: Majority of the medical representatives were between the age group of 26 and 35 (75.7%). Majority of the MRs were male (98.6%). Most of the participants in this study had done their non–pharmaceutical degree (87.2%). The respondents in this study were mainly the territory sales representative (65.7%). The quality of psychological, social and environmental health is better when the monthly salary is above Rs.25,000. The respondents from well–established pharmaceutical companies had better QOL. The overall QOL is claimed to be good among majority of the responders (60%).

Conclusion: The QOL is good among MRs in this study. But there are several stressors mentioned in this study which needs to be considered and necessary measures need to be taken by the pharmaceutical companies to improve the QOL of the MRs.

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Article: Download PDF   DOI : 10.36106/ijsr  

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QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG MEDICAL REPRESENTATIVES IN INDIA, Anjali J Anil, Pradeep B INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-2 | February-2019

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