World Health Organization defines pharmacovigilance as the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other medicine-related problems. In an effort to strengthen the pharmacovigilance in India, government has initiated pharmacovigilance programme of India. Spontaneous reporting of adverse drug reaction is globally practiced it under pharmacovigilance programme. But the major drawback of this system is underreporting. In this context the present survey was conducted, to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of spontaneous ADR reporting among doctors in a tertiary care teaching hospital in South India. A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted among doctors in a tertiary care teaching hospital in South India. The completed questionnaire information was recorded using Microsoft Excel spreadsheet (Microsoft Office 2007). The data was analyzed simple ratios, proportions, Chi-square tests were ever needed. In this study 60% of study subjects have awareness regarding pharmacovigilance, 65% have ADR reporting is a professional obligation, 73% knows about existence of pharmacovigilance programme in India. 95% felt that reporting of adverse drug reaction is necessary, 92% subjects say pharmacovigilance should be taught to health care professionals, 75% subjects opinion is that ADR monitoring center should be established in every hospital. 6% experienced adverse drug reactions in their patients only 20% reported ADR only 40% are trained on how to report ADR. The findings of the study suggest a huge scope for improving the awareness and knowledge about pharmacovigilance among the undergraduate students and health care professionals. Regular training on basic principles of pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting, easy accessibility ADR reporting forms, establishing a network of doctors for ADR reporting. For this, there is a need for continuous educational initiatives like CME and it should also be included in their curriculum as part of their study.
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