Adverse Drug Reactions Monitoring by Healthcare Professionals in Noida, Uttar Pradesh Region—A Study on Knowledge, Attitude and Method of Application

Abstract

The study was aimed to assessing the knowledge, attitude and method of application towards adverse drug reactions reporting by the doctors and other healthcare professionals (HCPs) in Delhi-NCR (Noida region), to get an insight into the causes of under-reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) and to suggest possible ways of improving this method of reporting. A structured validated questionnaire was used consisting of 10 questions divided into three components; awareness, knowledge and method of application. The study included 226 doctors and 274 other health care professionals. In doctors the satisfactory proportions were 75%, 76% and 67% in three respective categories corresponding percentage in HCPs were 62%, 67% and 61%. The one tail proportion test shows that doctors have better proportions of satisfactory at first two categories (awareness and knowledge). There are gaps between the knowledge and ADRs reporting to doctors working in the same hospital. These gaps need to be filled by sensitizing doctors in order to spread the awareness about it.

Keywords: Pharmacovigilance, adverse drug reactions, doctors, healthcare professionals

Cite this Article Amitabh Ranjan, Rachna Gupta, V. Kalaiselvan. Adverse Drug Reactions Monitoring by Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) in Delhi-NCR (Noida) Uttar Pradesh, India Region—A Study on Knowledge, Attitude and Method of Application. Research & Reviews: A Journal of Pharmacology. 2017; 7(3):  1–6p.