Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Pharmacovigilance Among Nursing Staff in BGS GIMS Hospital
Veena R. M1
, Kalpana L2, Lavanya S. H3 , Bharat Kumar V. D4 and Manasa C. R5 Department of Pharmacology, BGS Global Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore.
Corresponding author Email: drveenarm@gmail.com
Abstract: Background:To assess the knowledge, attitude andpractice (KAP) of pharmacovigilance (PV) and adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting among nurses and to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention for improving awareness of pharmacovigilance among nurses in a tertiary care teaching hospital. Methods:A predesigned structured KAP survey questionnaire was adapted from the previous studies,modified and validated internally in the department.Nursing staff working in all the departments of BGS GIMS College were included in the study. The KAP questionnaire was used to collect the data before and after an educational intervention. Results:A total of 77 nursing staffs were involved in pre-KAP and post- KAP survey questionnaire.The pre-test response rate was 25.3% for knowledge based questions, 55% for attitude and 24.67% for practice based questions. After educational intervention, the post-test response rate was 96.6% knowledge based questions, 84.4% for attitude and 78.24 % for practice based questions. The overall scores observed between pre-test and post-test were found to be statistically significant proving the effectiveness of educational intervention and improving the knowledge of pharma covigilance among nursing staff.Post educational intervention, nursing staff strongly agreed that pharmacovigilance (PV) should be trained in detail to all health care professionals and understood with the necessity of ADR reporting to the adverse drug monitoring centre (AMC) in our hospital run by department of pharmacology. Conclusions:This study proves that knowledge, attitude and practice of pharma covigilance and adverse drug reporting in routine practice can be improved by proper orientation and medical interventions.
Keywords: Adverse Drug Reaction; Attitude Knowledge; Nursing Faculty; Pharmacovigilance; Practices Back to TOC