Publication: Attitudes among healthcare professionals to the reporting of adverse drug reactions in Nepal
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2013-03-08
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20506511
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Mahidol University
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BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology. Vol.14, (2013)
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Santosh Kc, Pramote Tragulpiankit, Sarun Gorsanan, I. Ralph Edwards Attitudes among healthcare professionals to the reporting of adverse drug reactions in Nepal. BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology. Vol.14, (2013). doi:10.1186/2050-6511-14-16 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/32433
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Attitudes among healthcare professionals to the reporting of adverse drug reactions in Nepal
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Background: Healthcare professional's knowledge and attitudes to adverse drug reaction (ADR) and ADR reporting play vital role to report any cases of ADR. Positive attitudes may favour ADR reporting by healthcare professionals. This study was aimed to investigate the attitudes towards and ways to improve adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting among healthcare professionals working at four Regional Pharmacovigilance Centres (RPCs) of Nepal.Methods: A cross sectional study was done by survey using a self-administered structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was distributed to 450 healthcare professionals working at four RPCs.Results: The overall response rate was 74.0%. There were 74.8% of healthcare professionals who had seen patient experiencing an ADR; however, only 20.1% had reported. Reporting form not available (48.1%) and other colleagues not reporting ADR cases (46.9%) would significantly discourage the ADR reporting among healthcare professionals working at four RPCs. Healthcare professionals perceived that seriousness of the reaction (75.6%); unusual reaction (64.6%); reaction to new product (71.2%); new reaction to existing product (70.2%); and confidence in diagnosis of ADR (60.8%) were important factors on the decision to report ADR. Awareness among healthcare professionals (85.9%), training (76.0%), collaboration (67.0%), and involve pharmacist for ADR reporting (63.1%) were mostly recognized ways to improve reporting. Regular newsletter on current awareness in drug safety (71.2%), information on new ADR (65.8%), and international drug safety information (64.0%) were the identified feedbacks they would like to receive from the Nepal pharmacovigilance programme.Conclusion: Healthcare professionals working at four RPCs of Nepal have positive attitudes towards ADR reporting. Awareness among healthcare professionals, training and collaboration would likely improve reporting provided they would receive appropriate feedback from the national pharamcovigilance programme. © 2013 KC et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.