Assessment of health care professionals‘ knowledge, attitude and practices of pharmacovigilance in a rural tertiary care teaching hospital of Uttar Pradesh, India

Asha Pathak; Vinay Kumar Gupta

Volume : V, Issue : VIII, August - 2016

Assessment of health care professionals‘ knowledge, attitude and practices of pharmacovigilance in a rural tertiary care teaching hospital of Uttar Pradesh, India

Asha Pathak, Vinay Kumar Gupta

Abstract :

Objective: To assess about knowledge, attitude and practice of pharmacovigilance (PV) among healthcare professionals working in a rural tertiary care teaching hospital of Uttar Pradesh, India. Material and Methods: A questionnaire was prepared for assessing the Knowledge, Attitude and the Practice (KAP) and distributed among healthcare professionals including 20 pharmacist, 200 nurses and 50 resident doctors. Results: The overall response of participants was encouraging. Most of the participants have mediocre knowledge about the PV program but they were in favour of regular teaching and sensitization program. 88.01% were in favour of honorarium for ADR reporting. Conclusion: Regular training and the re–enforcement for the ADR reporting is recommended for all health care professionals. Imparting the knowledge and awareness of PV by means of continues educational intervention would ing update knowledge of practice for drug safety into their every day practice.