Affiliation:
1. 1Chairman of Community Medicine Department, Medical school, Mutah University, Alkarak, Jordan.
2. 2Clinical pharmacists at Alkarak governmental hospital Alkarak, Jordan.
Abstract
Background: Pharmacovigilance (PV) is the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug related problem. Since adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are considered worldwide as one of the most common public health problems that affect all groups of patients; the assessment of healthcare providers' knowledge, attitude, and practice of PV and ADRs reporting will provide an in-depth look at the reasons behind the lack of reports. Objectives: This study aims to assess the overall knowledge, attitude, and practice of PV and ADRs reporting among pharmacists working at Alkarak Governorate, Jordan. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted during the period from 20th February till 20th April 2021. All employed pharmacists working at Alkarak Governorate were eligible to participate using a structured-interview based-questionnaire. The Bivariate correlation test with the Pearson's (r) was used to assess the correlations between metric variables, independent samples t-test and the one-way ANOVA tests were also applied. The SPSS IBM program version 21 and the Stand-Alone FACTOR program were used for the statistical data analysis. The level of significance was set to be ≤ 0.050. Results: The majority of the pharmacists were females (74.4%), most of respondents (84.9%) had a Bachelor's degree in pharmacy. The pharmacists showed a moderately overall knowledge of PV (58.7%), positive attitudes toward their perceived ADRs reporting importance (78%), and toward selective ADRs reporting (62.8%), a moderate effort exerted by those pharmacists regarding the practice of ADRs reporting process (55.8%). The main barrier was that pharmacists did not know how to report (72.1%). Conclusion: Pharmacists had a moderate PV and ADRs reporting knowledge on average. Positive attitudes toward perceived ADRs reporting importance and moderate level of agreement on focusing on the well-known and serious ADRs. The result denotes a moderate effort exerted by those pharmacists on ADRs reporting practices. Pharmacists faced a moderately high perceived difficulties and extra burden (barriers).
Publisher
Oriental Scientific Publishing Company
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