Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and Perception of Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Reporting among the Pharmacy Students in South India

Abstract

The Study entitled "Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and perception of Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Reporting among the Pharmacy Students in South India" was designed to assess the awareness of Pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting, and to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention. A validated (pilot study) self administered (KAP) Knowledge, attitude, perception survey questionnaire was used in the study. This prospective knowledge attitude practice (KAP) questionnaire study, of 6 month duration included a total of 225(90%) participants out of 250. An interactive educational intervention was designed for all participants of pre-KAP questionnaire survey. The impact of effectiveness of educational intervention among the pharmacy students was evaluated by means of post-KAP questionnaire survey. The paired t-test and chi-square test in GraphPad InStat was used for statistical calculation. The overall response rates between pre intervention and post intervention was statistically significant (P< 0.001) shows effectiveness of educational intervention for improving awareness of pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting among the participants. The study concluded that imparting the knowledge and awareness of Pharmacovigilance among the pharmacy students by means of continuous educational intervention would bring up updated knowledge and practice in drug safety and rational use.

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