Knowledge and attitude of health-care professionals toward adverse drug reactions reporting at King Saud Medical City

Abstract

Background:Health-care professionals across the globe are obligated to report adverse drug reactions (ADRs). The knowledge of ADRs and attitude of health-care professionals toward ADRs reporting is vital for patient safety. This study intends to investigate the knowledge of ADRs and attitude of health-care professionals toward ADRs reporting.Materials and Methods:A cross-sectional study using an anonymous questionnaire was conducted over a period of 3 months (September 2016 to November 2016) at King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This study included 399 questionnaires submitted by health-care professionals.Results:A total of 399 questionnaires were submitted by health-care professionals, of which only 14.8% knew the term “ADR” and 55.1% of the respondents reported ADRs during their practice. A total of 93.8% of the respondents agreed that ADR reporting should be made mandatory for health-care professionals, and 94.5% agreed that it improves the patient safety.Conclusion:The findings generally indicate that health-care professionals in a tertiary care setting have low awareness regarding the term “ADR.” Lack of pharmacovigilance training, amount of workload, and legal liabilities are the main causes of underreporting. More than half of the respondents agreed that ADR reporting eventually improves patient safety.

Healthcare Professionals' Knowledge, Attitude and Perception toward Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting in Saudi Arabia: A Systematic Review

“…Few of the included studies had evaluated the perception of HCPs toward ADR reporting and most of these studies evaluated the perception by asking whether the HCPs think that reporting ADR will positively impact the healthcare (HC) system, patient care, improves the quality of life, or contributes to drug safety. The perception of HCPs toward this question ranged from 46.53% to 100% [14,18,20,26,29,30,[34][35][36]39]. The studies also show that HCPs think that it is important to report ADR and their perception was from 11.34% to 97% [13,17,19,21,23,24,31,34,36,38], and they believe it should be compulsory for HCPs to report ADR reaction with a perception ranged from 12% to 93.80% [13,18,19,25,26,30,31,35,39].…”

“…The characteristics of the included studies are displayed in Table 1. Ten studies included HCPs namely: physicians, dentists, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and nurses [13,16,17,21,[23][24][25][26][27]39], 7 other studies focused on the KAP on community pharmacists [14,15,19,30,5,36,38], 3 focused on physicians [18,22,33], 3 focused on hospital pharmacists [20,31,4], 2 focused on hospital and community pharmacists [28,37], 1 focused on physicians and dentists [33], and 1 focused on hospital pharmacists [32].…”

“…Another question that was frequently asked was about the official ADR reporting form provided for HCPs to submit their reports to the NPC. Evaluation of the HCPs participating in these studies indicated that their knowledge ranged from 11% to 100% [18,19,[22][23][24]26,28,30,32,33,35,39]. Beside asking about the definition of PV and ADR few studies have evaluated the knowledge of HCPs of the International PV Center, its location, the WHO online database for ADR reporting and the common scale for establishing causality of ADRs (Appendix Supplementary file 3).…”

“…Many HCPs believed that ADR reporting is a professional obligation and this belief ranged from 12.80% to 90.20% [13,17,[19][20][21]23,25,27,30,32,[34][35][36]39]. The attitude of HCPs toward reporting ADR is indicated by their actual involvement in reporting ADR during their practice and it ranged from 11.20% to 83% [15,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]31,34,36,39]. Other studies have evaluated the attitude of the HCPs toward the ease of using the online reporting system, the time consumed in reporting ADR, and whether having incentives impact their attitude of submitting more ADR reports (Appendix Supplementary file 3).…”

Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Medical, Pharmacy, and Nursing Students Towards Pharmacovigilance and Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting at University of Gondar College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Northwest Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…If they have confidence in their ability to diagnose, manage, and prevent such reactions, they will more likely to identify and report important ADRs. [12][13][14][15][16] Several studies, however, reported that there is under-reporting of ADR globally. The studies also showed the lack of adequate knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) about PV activities and ADR reporting is among the main reasons for underreporting of ADRs.…”