Materiovigilance: Impact of awareness cum sensitization programme on healthcare professionals of a tertiary care teaching hospital in South Delhi

Abstract

 Medical devices play a significant role in the diagnosis, monitoring, and management of different health disorders or conditions. Healthcare professionals play a significant role in the medical device adverse events reporting. However, there are only few studies regarding the awareness of medical professionals toward materiovigilance and thus, the study is to evaluate the impact of awareness cum sensitization programme towards Materiovigilance on healthcare professionals of a tertiary care teaching hospital in south Delhi. This was a cross-sectional questionnaire-based study done among the nursing professionals of a tertiary care teaching institute, South Delhi to evaluate their knowledge towards materiovigilance. The questionnaire consists of 10 questions. An Awareness cum Sensitization was organised to sensitize them towards MvPI. The study questionnaire were distributed to all the participants before and after the session and collected within 10 minutes. Responses were analysed. The questionnaire was distributed to 31 nursing professionals of various departments. Most of the nursing staff (16.12%) were from neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Many of them gave correct responses even before training but there is marked improvement in the knowledge of the nursing professionals towards materiovigilance after the training session as evident by their correct responses post training. Appropriate knowledge of materiovigilance is required to report adverse events associated with medical devices. Our study showed that health care professionals of our institute is lacking in their knowledge of materiovigilance. However, awareness programme on materiovigilance is helpful in improving the knowledge and also motivated them to report MDAEs with full enthusiasm.