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- Level <strong>of</strong> other promotion (samples, detailing) for the product, and quality <strong>of</strong> theadvertisements.SECTION II: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONThis section will discuss the results for each <strong>of</strong> the study objectives. Objective IVwhich tested if relationships in Objectives I, II and III were significant for both timeperiods (January 1994 to August 1997, September 1997 to April 2001) will be discussedsimultaneously with the appropriate objective.Objective ITo determine the relationships between DTCA expenditures (allergy medications,antilipemics, gastrointestinals, antidepressants and antihypertensives), access to care,and demographics (age and gender) and physician visits (allergy-related visits, lipidrelatedvisits, gastrointestinal-related visits, depression-related visits, hypertensionrelatedvisits).Objective IV for Physician Visits: To compare relationships between DTCA expenditures,access to care, demographics (age and gender) and physician visits in time periods: (a)January 1994 to August 1997; and (b) September 1997 to April 2001.Tables 6.1 and 6.2 provide the results for hypotheses tests for Objective I andObjective IV (rejected/not rejected), respectively for all five drug classes for thedependent variable frequency <strong>of</strong> physician visits.412

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