Authors : Venkatesan Gayathri, Subbiah Vijayalakshmi
DOI : 10.18231/j.idjsr.2022.020
Volume : 10
Issue : 3
Year : 2022
Page No : 92-95
Background: Pharmacovigilance(PV) plays an indispensable role towards patients safety by focusing on Adverse Drug Reactions(ADRs). Although, under reporting of ADRs remains its prime concern globally, mainly influenced by insufficient knowledge and poor attitude of health care professionals towards spontaneous ADR reporting. This current study includes budding second year dental graduates as they also form the futuristic circle on prescribing diverse forms of medications. Hence, aim of this study is to evaluate the knowledge and attitude towards PV and ADR reporting among dental undergraduates.
Materials and Methods: This questionnaire based cross sectional study was conducted in the department of Pharmacology with total 101 second year dental undergraduates, after receiving the proper IEC approval. A pre-validated questionnaire comprised of two division, first division (Q:1-10) analysed knowledge domain whereas second (Q:11-20) analysed attitude, were distributed to all participants with maximum time limit of 30 minutes. Then all the responses were tabulated & analyzed using SPSS 20.0 version.
Result: Mean age of study participants was 20.35 ± 0.67 involves 69.3% were female participants and 30.7% male. Out of 101 participants 78.6% has adequate knowledge about PV and 72.4% has better attitude towards ADR reporting.
Conclusion: The above results indicates that the knowledge and attitude towards PV and ADR reporting among dental undergraduates were satisfactory. Henceforth, this improving status affirms the positive tendency about PV and also conferring an assurance that our future professionals can minimize the under-reporting of ADR effectively.
Keywords: Adverse drug reactions, Attitude, Dental undergraduates, Knowledge, Pharmacovigilance