Knowledge, attitude, perceptions and assessment of effectiveness of educational intervention on Pharmacovigilance among undergraduate medical students at Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalaburagi, India

Bagewadi, Harish G.; Deodurg, Priyadarshini M.; Patil, B. V.; Dass, Asha P

doi:10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20175683

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“…[ 8 14 ] In one study by Harish G. Bagewadi, there was a significant improvement regarding awareness about healthcare professionals reporting ADR after educational intervention. [ 11 ] Preintervention, majority of the respondents were of the opinion that ADR reporting has to be done only for allopathic medicines which is similar to the findings reported by Gupta and Udupa. [ 8 ] This concept of the respondents changed after the educational intervention.…”

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“…Very few studies are there to assess the knowledge, attitude of PV among undergraduate medical students, and these studies indicate inadequate knowledge about PV among health-care professionals. In one study,[ 11 ] interactive educational intervention on PV among undergraduate medical students was found to be effective. However, the results of these studies cannot be applied to medical students in our institute as KAP among the students will differ from institute to institute.…”

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Effect of educational intervention on awareness of pharmacovigilance among medical undergraduates in a tertiary care teaching hospital

2020

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Aim: (1) To assess the knowledge and attitude of undergraduates about adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting at a tertiary care teaching hospital. (2) To assess the effect of educational intervention among medical undergraduates on knowledge and attitude about pharmacovigilance (PV). Materials and Methods: Cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey conducted at a tertiary care teaching hospital. Respondents were 192 undergraduate students (2 nd year). The study instrument was a self-developed, prevalidated semi-structured questionnaire. Participants were given 1 h to complete the questionnaire. After this, a 2 h lecture about PV was taken. Participants were asked to fill the same questionnaire after the educational intervention. Pre- and post-test questionnaire were compared. Results: There was an overall improvement in all three aspects, i.e., awareness, knowledge, and attitude. Most of the students had knowledge of the meaning of PV and reporting of ADR by doctors. However, there was a significant improvement in the knowledge regarding reporting of ADR by dentist, nurses, and pharmacist. Similarly, students were aware of the fact that ADR with allopathic medicines should be reported, but postintervention, there was improvement in percentage regarding reporting of ADR in the case of herbal and traditional medicine, blood products, and biological and medical device. There was a significant improvement in percentage regarding awareness about process of reporting ADR after exposure to lecture. Conclusion: There is a need of increasing awareness among the medical students to improve the reporting of ADRs. Adequate consideration needs to be given to the subject of ADRs in the clinical pharmacology and therapeutics curricula in undergraduate medical education.

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Effect of educational intervention on awareness of pharmacovigilance among medical undergraduates in a tertiary care teaching hospital

2020

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“…Recent study reports a significant improvement in reporting ADR by healthcare professionals after educational intervention. [ 15 ] Regular awareness programs are the best platforms for the Ayurveda fraternities who are in the field of teaching and clinical practice to preserve their competence and acquire newer developments in their respective field. Further, the awareness can also be developed, among various stake holders, considering their in the form of circulations of written periodicals, newsletter, audio, video, or other forms of electronic media and conducting various competitions like essay, debate etc.…”

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Knowledge, attitude and practice towards pharmacovigilance among ayurveda physicians and teachers of Gujarat State: A cross sectional study

Acharya

Naik

Rang

et al. 2022

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care

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Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice towards pharmacovigilance for Ayurveda among the teachers and practitioners working in Ayurveda colleges of Gujarat State. Materials and Methods: A survey questionnaire with 29 questions covering points like participants’ knowledge, attitude and practice towards pharmacovigilance, adverse drug reaction reporting, and misleading advertisements related Ayurveda drugs was developed in Google form format. The study was carried out during December 2020 and January 2021. Question-wise analysis was made and their percentage value was calculated with the help of a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in MS Office 2010. The result was presented using simple frequencies with percentages in appropriate tables. Results: Results from this study show that majority of the respondents were having a good knowledge regarding the concept of pharmacovigilance and ADRs in terms of their definitions and purposes. But, a complete knowledge regarding the structure of present national and international pharmacovigilance programme, reporting the ADR and its format were still lacking among majority of the participants. An encouraging attitude towards reporting of adverse drug reaction of ASU&H drugs and teaching of Pharmacovigilance for all the healthcare professionals by majority of the participants was observed. Further maximum participants opine a mandatory rule for reporting of ADR by Physicians, Pharmacist and Nursing staff. A major part of respondents (78.03%) opine that poor quality of drug, medication errors, prescription errors, dispensing errors are part of Pharmacovigilance under drug-related problems. The observed positive attitude is not being reflected in term of practice i.e., reporting of ADR related to Ayurveda drugs. One-third of the participants reported their experience about adverse drug reactions during their professional practice, out of which very few have reported ADRs. Difficulty in deciding or identifying the ADR and lack of time to report ADR is one of the major factor discouraging the participants from reporting ADRs. A large number of respondents were also not familiar with reporting misleading advertisements. Conclusion: Findings of this study reflects a good knowledge of the participants about the concept of Pharmacovigilance but unfamiliarity about the programme. The positive attitude towards practice of Pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting can be converted to foster pharmacovigilance practice through series of awareness programmes.

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“…The limited information regarding the location of the present national pharmacovigilance co-ordinating centre, the official website of the pharmacovigilance program can be attributed to restricted information regarding recent advances and updates of pharmacovigilance in the present curriculum. This lacuna can be improved by educational interventions as reports from the published study also reveals a significant improvement in reporting ADR by healthcare professionals after educational intervention (Bagewadi et al, 2018). Available literature also shows that interactive educational intervention on PV among undergraduate medical students and healthcare professionals (Bagewadi et al, 2018;Rajesh et al, 2011) were found to be effective in increasing awareness.…”

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“…This lacuna can be improved by educational interventions as reports from the published study also reveals a significant improvement in reporting ADR by healthcare professionals after educational intervention (Bagewadi et al, 2018). Available literature also shows that interactive educational intervention on PV among undergraduate medical students and healthcare professionals (Bagewadi et al, 2018;Rajesh et al, 2011) were found to be effective in increasing awareness. However, some studies conclude that only knowledge does not help in increased ADR reporting.…”

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The Knowledge, attitude, and practice among Ayurvedic scholars and trainees towards pharmacovigilance: a questionnaire-based survey in Gujarat, India

Acharya¹,

Naik²,

Rang³

et al. 2022

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The study was carried out to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice of scholars and trainees studying in Ayurveda colleges of Gujarat state regarding pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting. Methods:The questionnaire-based study was carried out during December 2020 and January 2021. Total 29 questions covering points like participants' knowledge, attitude, and practice towards pharmacovigilance, adverse drug reaction reporting, and misleading advertisements related to Ayurveda drugs were made available to participants in Google forms through their Emails. The result was presented using simple frequencies with percentages in appropriate tables. Results: A total of 1790 scholars and trainees from 17 different colleges of Gujarat state participated in the survey. The majority of participants were BAMS students (97. 15 %) and from private colleges (81. 79%). Analysis of survey data reveals that the majority of the respondents have better knowledge and attitude, but limited practice regarding pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting. Among the respondents, 86. 74 % had correctly defined the Pharmacovigilance and 69. 32 % knew about the specific ADR reporting form for ASU&H drugs. Even though ADR reporting was considered to be important by a large majority of the participants (87. 95 %), the actual practices of ADR reporting were very low. A large number of respondents were also not familiar with reporting misleading advertisements. Conclusion:Findings of the present study reflect a good knowledge of the participants about the concept of Pharmacovigilance but lack of skill in practicing the same. The positive attitude towards the practice of Pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting may help in improving ADR monitoring and reporting. Further, it can be suggested that integration of this subject in the curriculum is pivotal in improving the ongoing pharmacovigilance activities.

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Knowledge, attitude, perceptions and assessment of effectiveness of educational intervention on Pharmacovigilance among undergraduate medical students at Gulbarga Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalaburagi, India

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Effect of educational intervention on awareness of pharmacovigilance among medical undergraduates in a tertiary care teaching hospital

Effect of educational intervention on awareness of pharmacovigilance among medical undergraduates in a tertiary care teaching hospital

Knowledge, attitude and practice towards pharmacovigilance among ayurveda physicians and teachers of Gujarat State: A cross sectional study

The Knowledge, attitude, and practice among Ayurvedic scholars and trainees towards pharmacovigilance: a questionnaire-based survey in Gujarat, India

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