The knowledge and attitude of the Turkish community pharmacists toward pharmacovigilance in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul

Toklu, Hale Z.; Uysal, Meral Keyer

doi:10.1007/s11096-008-9209-4

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“…This tallies, to a large extent, with other reports from Nigeria, China and Malaysia [9,18,21]. While it is important to note that these studies were carried out among physicians, several other studies involving pharmacists have indeed confirmed that under-reporting of ADRs is common to all health care professionals [22,23]. It is also interesting to note the non-response of medical consultants and the low level of participation by pharmacists in this study.…”

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting among Healthcare Workers in a Tertiary Centre in Northern Nigeria

Fadare¹,

Enwere²,

Afolabi³

et al. 2011

Trop. J. Pharm Res

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting among Healthcare Workers in a Tertiary Centre in Northern Nigeria

Fadare¹,

Enwere²,

Afolabi³

et al. 2011

Trop. J. Pharm Res

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“…Previous studies have shown that the rate of reporting ADRs by pharmacists in different countries varied from 3% to 14.7% which is lower than what was reported in this study. 20,23 The reasons for the pharmacists nonreporting of adverse drug reactions mainly included uncertainty about causality, not sure of the adverse drug reactions to report, not having access to adverse drug reactions reporting form, ignorance of the rule of reporting, the complexity of the form, lack of time and workload. The determinants of under-reporting of adverse drug reactions as shown from our study is in line to a large extent with other reports from Nigeria, China, Spain, and Malaysia.…”

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Community Pharmacists Knowledge, Behaviours and Practice of Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting in Lagos State, Nigeria

Usifoh¹,

Aika²,

Odili³

et al. 2018

IJOPP

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Introduction: Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) reporting is essential to ensure safe use of medication. Objective: To assess community pharmacists' knowledge, behaviours and practice of ADR reporting in Lagos State. Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey using self-administered questionnaire distributed to randomly selected pharmacists in retail community pharmacies in Lagos State. The instrument is a 62 item structured questionnaire in four sections; the demographics, knowledge about ADR reporting system, assessment of practice and attitude on ADR reporting; and the behavior and practice of patients counseling about ADR by community pharmacists. Data analysis was done with Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 20. Results: Majority (31.9%) of the respondents have practiced in community pharmacies for less than 5 years, 62.7% of the community pharmacists were familiar with adverse drug reaction reporting. 57.8% of the pharmacists have internet facility in their pharmacies and 79.4% of the respondents were aware that community pharmacists can submit adverse drug reactions online. In the preceding months, 78.4% of the pharmacists had encountered many serious ADR but only 27.0% reported them. The reasons for underreporting of ADR included uncertainty about causality (52.0%), respondents not sure of which ADR to report (38.2%), no access to reporting forms (33.8%), ignorance of the rule of reporting (30.4%), and complexity of the reporting forms (16.2%). Conclusion: There is low reporting of adverse drug reactions by community pharmacists attributable to insufficient knowledge and high level of untrained community pharmacists in pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reactions reporting.

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“…The knowledge and attitudes of community pharmacists towards pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reactions in Kadikoy district of Istanbul, Turkey, were scrutinized by Toklu and Uysal [4]. The results demonstrated Turkish pharmacists had poor knowledge on pharmacovigilance, and they stressed on an urgent need for educational programs for training professionals about pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting [4].…”

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Do Health Professionals have Positive Perception Towards Consumer Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions?

Alshakka

Ibrahim²,

Hassali³

2013

JCDR

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Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the perceptions of general practitioners (GPs) and community pharmacists (CPs) in Penang, Malaysia, towards consumer reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs). Methodology:A cross-sectional mail survey was adopted for the performance of the study. Survey questionnaires were sent to 192 CPs and 400 GPs in the state of Penang, Malaysia. Reminders were sent to all the non-respondents after 3 weeks of the initial mailing. Data which were collected from the questionnaires were analyzed by using the Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), version 15. The Chi-square test was used to determine as to whether there was any significant difference between expected and observed frequencies at the alpha level of 0.05. Results:Only 104 respondents (47 CPs and 57 GPs) returned the survey, with a response rate of 18.0%-a figure which could be considered to be low. This study indicated that GPs and CPs were aware about the importance and benefits of consumer reporting. A majority of them (88.0%) thought that consumer reporting would add more benefits to the existing pharmacovigilance program. Similarly, 97% of the respondents agreed that reporting of ADRs was necessary and 87.0% respondents had seen ADRs among their patients. However, 57 of them (6.0%), had not been aware

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The knowledge and attitude of the Turkish community pharmacists toward pharmacovigilance in the Kadikoy district of Istanbul

Abstract: The results show that Turkish community pharmacists have poor knowledge about pharmacovigilance. There is an urgent need for educational programs to train them about pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting.

Cited by 110 publications

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Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting among Healthcare Workers in a Tertiary Centre in Northern Nigeria

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting among Healthcare Workers in a Tertiary Centre in Northern Nigeria

Community Pharmacists Knowledge, Behaviours and Practice of Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting in Lagos State, Nigeria

Do Health Professionals have Positive Perception Towards Consumer Reporting of Adverse Drug Reactions?

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