Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Pharmacovigilance among junior doctors of a tertiary health care institute in North East India
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 4, Issue 9
Abstract
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Pharmacovigilance programme is aimed at increasing reporting of ADRs and building a database of ADRs. The contribution of junior doctors to ADR databases by voluntary reporting is enormously significant .The objective of this questionnaire based cross sectional study was to determine the level of awareness among the junior doctors about the necessity of ADR reporting. 167 junior doctors responded in this study. 46.10% of the responders were found to be aware of pharmacovigilance. 65.86% of the responders in this study considered pharmacovigilance to be essential and only 19.16% were in favour of making ADR reporting mandatory. 19.76% of the responders had reported an ADR before. The knowledge, attitude and practices of pharmacovigilance were found to be poor in this study. Keywords: Adverse drug reactions, KAP, ADR reporting, Adverse effects, Questionnaire
Authors and Affiliations
Borah Ajoy, Bezbaruah Babul Kumar, Gohain Swapnanil, Singha Binita
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