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A study of knowledge, attitudes, and practice of dental doctors about adverse drug reaction reporting in a teaching hospital in India
- Source :
- Perspectives in Clinical Research, Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 144-149 (2015), Perspectives in Clinical Research
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2015.
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Abstract
- Objective: The aim was to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and practice of dental doctors about adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting. Materials and Methods: In a cross-sectional study, questionnaire was administered to 95 dental doctors working in a teaching dental hospital attached to a medical college with an ADR monitoring center (AMC). Statistical Analysis Used: Descriptive statistics were used to analyze responses. The association of knowledge and attitude with respect to position of dentists was analyzed with Chi-square test. Results: The response rate and spontaneous reporting rate was found to be 61.0% and 13.7%, respectively. Important factors contributing to under reporting of ADRs include lack of awareness about AMC in the institute (81.0%) and pharmacovigilance program (72.4%), complacency (67.2%), lack of training to identify ADRs (65.5%), fear factor (63.7%), lethargy (58.6%), lack of risk perception of over the counter product related ADR (39.6%), inadequate risk perception of nonallopathic and herbal medicines (31%), indifference (27.5%) and concern that report may be wrong (27.5%). No significant difference in knowledge and attitudes of doctors with respect to position was found except for reporting of ADRs of newly marketed drugs and serious reactions to established product (P < 0.05). Conclusion: The deficiencies in knowledge and attitudes appear to be the underlying factor for under reporting by dental practitioners. It should be addressed urgently in order to increase spontaneous reporting by them.
- Subjects :
- Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
knowledge
spontaneous reporting
lcsh:Medicine
Lethargy
Under-reporting
Pharmacovigilance
medicine
Response rate (survey)
lcsh:R5-920
Descriptive statistics
business.industry
lcsh:R
General Medicine
Awareness
medicine.disease
Risk perception
Family medicine
pharmacovigilance
dental doctors
Original Article
Over-the-counter
business
lcsh:Medicine (General)
Adverse drug reaction
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 22293485
- Volume :
- 6
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Perspectives in Clinical Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9977423610a275fae2ba3340de9e5861