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Objective: To study the knowledge of Health Care Professional’s and their attitudes for reporting adverse drug reactions and also to find out their participation in reporting ADRs in Tertiary care hospital in Delhi. Methods: This study was conducted by using validated KAP questionnaire. The reliability of validated KAP questionnaires was analyzed by conducting a pilot study on 50 pharmacist and calculating Cronbach Alfa value (0.823), in order to identify the knowledge, attitude, practice of Pharmacovigilance. Based on the previous study conducted, the sample size (230) was calculated by using SPSS v21.0 with the significance level of P < 0.001. Result: In this study total 690 HCP’s responded. The overall response rate was significantly in HCP’s (P < 0.001). Health care professionals play a major responsible role in reporting ADRs. Knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) survey was done among HCP’s including physicians, pharmacists and nurses. Almost 1500 KAP questionnaire was distributed to assess their knowledge, attitude and practice towards Pharmacovigilance. Out of which 230 responded from each group of HCP’s for the KAP questionnaire Conclusion: Compared to nurses and pharmacists, physicians have a better understanding of Pharmacovigilance, but they lag in practice and attitude. The study demonstrated that there is a lack of awareness of Pharmacovigilance among the Health care professionals. There was a need for an educational intervention among the health care professionals to increase the knowledge, awareness and to change attitude towards Pharmacovigilance

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