The comparative assessment of awareness, perspective, and basic practice skills about the Saudi pharmacovigilance system among students of different health-care professionals of a Saudi Female University

Bepari, Asmatanzeem; Assiri, Rasha; AlYahya, Maya Abdullah; AlGhamdi, Shaden Jamaan; Alghamdi, Abdulaziz G.; AlOnazi, Afrah Asaad

doi:10.1016/j.jsps.2020.06.002

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“…Moreover, pharmacy students showed a higher knowledge score compared with dental and medical students. This is similar to the results of the study conducted by Bepari et al where pharmacy students showed a better mean knowledge score and practice skills, compared to medical and nursing students [22]. Furthermore, pharmacy students showed modest confidence in their preparedness to report adverse drug reactions.…”

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Teaching Pharmacovigilance to Healthcare Students: Identifying Gaps and Opportunities for Improvement

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The literature indicates that the limited pharmacovigilance knowledge demonstrated by healthcare professionals is the main reason for the underreporting of adverse drug reactions. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to investigate pharmacy, dental and medical students’ knowledge and attitudes to pharmacovigilance and pharmacovigilance education. The cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted at the University of Split School of Medicine in November 2020. In total, 350 students participated in the study. The results have shown that pharmacy students showed a significantly higher knowledge score compared to dental and medical students (P < 0.001). In total 92.2% of pharmacy, 21.8% of dental and 70.8% of medical students had knowledge of patients’ involvement in adverse drug reactions, reporting (P < 0.001). Interestingly, only 44.3% of all students knew that adverse drug reactions could be reported using a mobile application. Moreover, significantly more pharmacy students (74.4%) were aware of the adverse drug reactions monitoring center in Croatia, with 47.5% of dental and 39.2% of medical students correctly identifying it (P < 0.001). The results showed that most students felt that pharmacovigilance was not adequately covered in curricula; therefore, there is a great need to increase the knowledge and awareness of pharmacovigilance among students aspiring to become future healthcare professionals, and improve their reporting practice in clinical future.

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“…While comparing the mean ANOVA score of various healthcare students, pharmacy and medical students had a higher KAP score than nursing students, consistent with previous findings, where pharmacy students showed statistically significantly higher knowledge and practice than other healthcare professionals (Bepari et al, 2020).…”

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Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practice towards adverse drug reaction reporting among healthcare students of Namakkal District, Tamil Nadu

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Background: Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are recognised causes of increased mortality, morbidity, and high healthcare costs. The contribution of healthcare students to ADR databases is essential and has enabled continued drug detection to such an extent that it has led to identifying unsuspected and rare ADR signals. Objectives: The study aims to evaluate healthcare students’ knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) toward ADR reporting. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted among 265 healthcare students of Namakkal district, Tamil Nadu, from various departments. A three-section questionnaire was developed in English and distributed online from July to October 2020. Each participant received a score for each KAP section. Results: Of the 265 healthcare students included in the study, 56.98% were female. The majority were pharmacy students 132 (49.81%), followed by medical 74 (27.92%) and nursing 59 (22.26%) students. There was a significant difference in ADR reporting among healthcare students. KAP of ADR reporting was higher among pharmacy students (88.68%) compared to the medical (19.25%) and nursing students (29.63%), with a p-value of 0.05. Conclusion: This study showed that pharmacy students had more awareness of ADR reporting than other healthcare students due to pharmacovigilance courses in their curriculum and adequate training during clerkships and internships. Hence, it is necessary to include pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting in other healthcare curriculum to reduce ADR underreporting in the future. Periodic educational interventions can improve these parameters of pharmacovigilance.

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Pharmacovigilance and outcomes: experience from Saudi Arabia narrative review

Alshammari

2024

Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research

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The comparative assessment of awareness, perspective, and basic practice skills about the Saudi pharmacovigilance system among students of different health-care professionals of a Saudi Female University

Cited by 4 publications

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Teaching Pharmacovigilance to Healthcare Students: Identifying Gaps and Opportunities for Improvement

Teaching Pharmacovigilance to Healthcare Students: Identifying Gaps and Opportunities for Improvement

Assessment of knowledge, attitude, and practice towards adverse drug reaction reporting among healthcare students of Namakkal District, Tamil Nadu

Pharmacovigilance and outcomes: experience from Saudi Arabia narrative review

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