Background: Pharmacovigilance program of India plays an important role for monitoring of adverse drug reaction (ADR) in patients. However, due to lack of knowledge about pharmacovigilance among health-care professionals, under-reporting of ADR observed.
Aims and Objectives: This study aims to involve, inspire, and encourage the nursing staff to report error free adverse drug event that meets both the needs and legitimate expectations.
Materials and Methods: A pre-designed questionnaires based cross-sectional study conducted by the Department of Pharmacology among nursing staff working at tertiary care hospital. Participants were given pre-test and post-test with ADR form filling before and after educational Interventional lecture, respectively. For data analysis, Chi-square with yet correction was applied.
Results: A total of 30 nursing staff participants involved in questionnaires based study. An overall knowledge about pharmacovigilance ranging from 10% to 53% which was lower rang except knowledge about what is ADR was 83% in pre-test. Positive attitude toward pharmacovigilance also low ranges from 23% to 53%. Only 12% of participants were report the ADR. Majority of participant had obtained average score in ADR form filling. After educational intervention, improvement seen in knowledge, positive attitude and majority of participants fall under good score for ADR form filling.
Conclusion: Improvement in knowledge and attitude was seen after educational intervention for pharmacovigilance among nurses.
Key words: Pharmacovigilance; Knowledge; Attitude; Practice; Nurses
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