scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice among consumers about adverse drug reaction reporting

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 1776
Author(s):  
Jeet J. Patel ◽  
Megha K. Shah ◽  
Prakruti P. Patel ◽  
A. M. Gandhi ◽  
Mira K. Desai
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Drug Reaction ◽  
Drug Reaction ◽  
Adverse Drug Reactions ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Drug Reactions ◽  
Adr Reporting ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Reporting Programme ◽  
Consumer Reporting ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Background: Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) reporting by consumers is quite low in India. Assessing knowledge and attitude of consumers regarding ADR reporting and observing practice of ADR reporting among them can help explore probable causes for underreporting of ADRs by consumers.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in a tertiary care teaching hospital using investigator-administered questionnaire and interviewing indoor patients of Surgery, Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology and Dermatology departments. The questionnaire was prepared to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of consumers about ADR reporting. Data was analysed using mean, standard deviation and percentages.Result: A total of 820 consumers of medicines were included. It was found that 32.2% consumers were not aware that a drug can produce adverse effects. After being explained about adverse drug reactions, 94.6% consumers felt that adverse drug reactions should be reported. However, 98.8% consumers were not aware of Pharmacovigilance Programme of India. After consulting about consumer reporting programme, majority of respondents (96.1%) felt that the direct consumer reporting programme helps reporting of ADRs. Moreover, 93.7% of consumers were willing to use it to report ADRs in future. Consumers preferred the Telephonic method with a Toll free number for ADR reporting followed by informing a health care professional.Conclusion: Poor knowledge and awareness about ADR reporting is the major factor for low to nearly absent ADR reporting by consumers in India.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice toward adverse drug reaction reporting among practicing clinicians at a tertiary care hospital

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 845
Author(s):  
Toshan L. Todar ◽  
Manju Agrawal ◽  
Rajesh Hishikar ◽  
Anuja Jha ◽  
Basant Maheshwari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Drug Reaction ◽  
Drug Reaction ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Reaction Monitoring ◽  
Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Monitoring Centre ◽  
Adr Reporting ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Pharmacovigilance has evolved as an important tool for dealing with Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) both in pre-marketing and post-marketing scenario. Underreporting of ADRs at our Adverse drug reaction Monitoring Centre (AMC) led us to conduct this study to assess Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) of the practicing clinicians at our tertiary care Pt. J.N.M. Medical College associated Dr. B.R.A.M. Hospital, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, towards ADRs reporting.Methods: This was a cross-sectional study using pretested questionnaires consisting of 29 questions related to KAP of the practicing clinicians at Pt. J.N.M. Medical College associated Dr. B.R.A.M.  Hospital, Raipur towards ADRs reporting. The percentage of responders for each question was calculated. All statistical analysis was performed in Microsoft Office Excel 2007.Results: Out of 135 questionnaires distributed only 100 were considered for analysis, so the overall response rate was 74.07%. We calculated the result from the 100 responders. Overall 77% responders were aware of existence of ADR monitoring system in India, while only 40% were aware of its existence at their hospital. Only 8% responders had reported ADRs to the National Pharmacovigilance Centre and 10% to the Adverse drug reaction Monitoring Centre (AMC) at their hospital. Lack of knowledge about where, how and whom to report ADRs, lack of time, inability to decide what to report (known or unknown ADRs) and unavailability of ADR reporting form were the important factors discouraging them reporting ADRs.Conclusions: Creating awareness regarding ADR reporting through CMEs among practicing clinicians and early sensitization at medical undergraduate level for medical students may improve the current ADR reporting rate.  

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting of Healthcare Professionals and Their Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards ADR Reporting in Nekemte Town, West Ethiopia

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lense Temesgen Gurmesa ◽  
Mohammed Gebre Dedefo
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Adverse Drug Reaction ◽  
Drug Reaction ◽  
Adverse Drug Reactions ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting ◽  
Drug Reactions ◽  
Reaction Reporting ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background. Adverse drug reactions are global problems of major concern. Adverse drug reaction reporting helps the drug monitoring system to detect the unwanted effects of those drugs which are already in the market. Aims. To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of health care professionals working in Nekemte town towards adverse drug reaction reporting. Methods and Materials. A cross-sectional study design was conducted on a total of 133 health care professionals by interview to assess their knowledge, attitude, and practice using structured questionnaire. Results. Of the total respondents, only 64 (48.2%), 56 (42.1%), and 13 (9.8%) health care professionals have correctly answered the knowledge, attitude, and practice assessment questions, respectively. Lack of awareness and knowledge on what, when, and to whom to report adverse drug reactions and lack of commitments of health care professionals were identified as the major discouraging factors against adverse drug reaction reporting. Conclusion. This study has revealed that the knowledge, attitude, and practice of the health care professionals working in Nekemte town towards spontaneous adverse drug reaction reporting were low that we would like to recommend the concerned bodies to strive on the improvement of the knowledge, attitude, and practice status of health care professionals.

scholarly journals Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting in Ethiopia: Systematic Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Abel Demerew Hailu ◽  
Solomon Ahmed Mohammed
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Adverse Drug Reaction ◽  
Drug Reaction ◽  
Adverse Drug Reactions ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting ◽  
Drug Reactions ◽  
Reaction Reporting ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Adverse drug reactions are major global public health problems and an important cause of mortality. Problems related to medicines safety can emerge from real-life medication use due to increasing access to complex treatment of concomitant infectious and noncommunicable diseases, hence leading to a higher prevalence of drug-related problems. The objective of this review was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of adverse drug reaction reporting among health care professionals in Ethiopia. Relevant literatures were searched from Google Scholar, PubMed, Hinari, Web of Science, Scopus, and Science Direct using inclusion and exclusion criteria. From 133 searched studies, 13 studies were reviewed. The knowledge and attitude of health care professionals towards adverse drug reaction reporting ranged from 22.68% -60.33% and 47.22% -67.14%, with averages of 41.50% and 57.18%, respectively. While 46.93% encountered adverse drug reactions and 41.8% reported in the last 12 months. One-third (34.15%) of health care professionals do not know how to report adverse drug reactions. Fearing to report, uncertainty about the adverse drug reaction, concern about reporting generating extra work, thinking that one report does not make any difference, nonavailability of reporting forms, and lack of feedback from regulatory authority were the stated reasons for underreporting. We conclude that the knowledge, attitude, and practice of health care professionals towards spontaneous ADR reporting were low. Conducting awareness and educational training and implementation of electronic reporting can improve the ADR reporting practice.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice of adverse drug reactions reporting among nurses in a tertiary care centre

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (12) ◽  
pp. 2926
Author(s):  
Priyanka S. Survase ◽  
Amit P. Date ◽  
Archana S. Borkar ◽  
Rupesh T. Badwaik ◽  
Riaz A. Siddiqui ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Drug Reactions ◽  
Spontaneous Reporting ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Drug Reactions ◽  
Adr Reporting ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Adverse drug reactions are one of the major medicine related problem related to pharmacotherapy which may lead to increased morbidity and mortality causing increased hospital stay and financial burden on the society. Spontaneous voluntary reporting of adverse drug reaction can play a vital role in generating safety signals in which nurses can play important role, hence this study was undertaken to evaluate the knowledge attitude and practice of ADR reporting along with factors affecting reporting among nurses.Methods: The present study was a cross sectional questionnaire based study, which included nurses of a tertiary care hospital in central India. We tried to find out the possible ways to perk up spontaneous reporting of ADR and factors responsible for scarce reporting of ADRs.Results: After analyzing the data, we observed few of responders were aware of the ADR reporting system and the most encouraging finding was that majority of the responders were of the view that this reporting system is necessary. However, response to practice related questions was below average. Main factors which discouraged ADR reporting by nurses was thinking that reporting would lead to extra work and non availability of forms.Conclusions: The deficiencies in ADR reporting require awareness so as to perquisite spontaneous reporting and improve safety of patients. Training to nurses will lead to improvement in reporting of ADR.

scholarly journals A questionnaire-based knowledge, attitude and practice study to determine the awareness of pharmacovigilance among the health care professionals in a tertiary care hospital of West Bengal 

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anuran Bhadury ◽  
Olivia Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Saswati Sarkar
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Drug Reactions ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Drug Reactions ◽  
Adr Reporting ◽  
Attitude And Practice ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
Almost All ◽  
And Training ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Pharmacovigilance programs have been introduced to keep an eye on adverse drug reactions and safe use of drugs. All Healthcare professionals (HCPs) should report each and every adverse events which they come across. Pharmacovigilance programme of India is running actively since 2010 but India contributes only 2% of Adverse drug reactions (ADR’s) reported worldwide. There is need to monitor awareness of HCP’s about pharmacovigilance to achieve the goals. Such studies from peripheries of Eastern India are lacking. The aim of the study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice and overall awareness among HCP’s about pharmacovigilance and to understand actual barriers of ADR reporting.Methods: A cross-sectional questionnaire-based study was done in Burdwan Medical College and Hospital. Ninety-nine HCP’s completed the pre-designed questionnaire. There were 15 questions to assess the awareness and cause(s) of underreporting. Data were analysed using appropriate statistical software.Results: We analysed data of 67 doctors and 32 nurses. We found, 67.2% doctors and 59.4% nurses knew definition of pharmacovigilance. About half HCP’s had knowledge about existing pharmacovigilance committee in our hospital. Almost all HCP’s felt ADR reporting is necessary. Surprisingly 88.1% doctors and 46.9% nurses experienced ADR at least once but 25.4% and 3.1% reported them respectively. For knowledge and practice related questions, correct responses were significantly higher for doctors. Most common discouraging factors regarding ADR reporting were, didn’t know how to report (52.5%) where to report (41.4%).Conclusions: Attitude of HCP’s towards pharmacovigilance activities was appreciable and combining it with periodic sensitizing programs, and training sessions will increase the knowledge, clear doubts about ADR reporting and improve the awareness about pharmacovigilance.

scholarly journals Analysis of cutaneous adverse drug reactions in a tertiary care teaching hospital

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 843
Author(s):  
Anusha S. ◽  
Nandhini Priya M. ◽  
Shanthi N.
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Drug Reaction ◽  
Drug Reaction ◽  
Adverse Drug Reactions ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Antimicrobial Agents ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Drug Reactions ◽  
Female Ratio ◽  
Adr Reporting ◽  
The Common

Background: Cutaneous Adverse Drug Reaction (CADR) is considered as one of the reasons for discontinuation of drug as well as medication non-adherence. This study analyses the common drugs causing CADR, clinical spectrum of different types of CADR, causality and drugs causing severe CADR.Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional observational study conducted by the Department of Pharmacology, Coimbatore Medical College, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. The study was conducted using data collected in CDSCO’s ADR reporting forms with CADR from June 2015 to July 2017. Patient’s information, details related to adverse drug reaction, suspected medication details, concomitant medication history, causality and seriousness were recorded.Results: A total of 102 CADR were evaluated in this study. The mean age of sample was 37.21±20.33 years. Maximum number of cases was in the age group of 40-49 years. Male to female ratio was 0.96:1. The commonly incriminated drugs causing CADR were antimicrobial agents. Ciprofloxacin (21.57%), phenytoin (9.8%), diclofenac sodium (6.86%), anti-snake venom (6.86%) and vancomycin (3.92%) were the common drugs implicated in CADR. Maculopapular rash and itching were the most common CADR. Anticonvulsants especially phenytoin was commonly associated with severe CADR.Conclusions: The present study has made an impact on all departments of this institution and awareness has been created about spontaneous reporting of all adverse drug reactions in CDSCO ADR reporting forms to the pharmacovigilance centres. Thus, sound knowledge about the adverse drug reactions may decrease the occurrence of drug induced morbidity and mortality. 

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice towards adverse drug reactions reporting in post graduate students of a tertiary care hospital

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 1320
Author(s):  
Aparna S. Chincholkar ◽  
Alisha Naik
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Drug Reactions ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Tertiary Care ◽  
Care Hospital ◽  
Drug Reactions ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Adr Reporting ◽  
Microsoft Office ◽  
Knowledge Attitude And Practice

Background: Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Under reporting of ADRs by health care professionals is a very common problem worldwide. So, the present study was planned to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of postgraduate (PG) students towards ADR reporting and suggest possible ways for improvement.Methods: It was a cross sectional questionnaire-based study conducted among 44 PG students using a questionnaire with questions on knowledge (21), attitude (13) and practices (15) of ADR reporting. The questionnaire was analyzed question wise and the percentage was calculated using Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in Microsoft Office 2010 software.Results: Most of them were aware of the term pharmacovigilance (PV) (95.45%). 54.55% agreed to be trained on how to report an ADR. 88.63% knew about the existence of pharmacovigilance committee in the institute.93% of participants knew that Central Drug Standard Control Organization (CDSCO) is responsible for monitoring of ADRs. 56.82% were aware about VIGIBASE an online software to report ADR. 81.82% of participants had agreed to witness ADRs in patients but only 38.64% reported them. The main reason behind it was non – availability of ADR forms. 42.55% opine that mobile based app would be the most preferred method to send ADR information to an ADR reporting center.Conclusions: There exists a huge gap between ADR experienced and ADR reported by PG students. Participants agreed upon necessity of reporting ADR and periodic briefing about PV.

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