An Educational Intervention to assess Knowledge Attitude Practice of pharmacovigilance among Health care professionals in an Indian tertiary care teaching hospital

Objective: To assess awareness of pharmacovigilance among the healthcare professionals and to evaluate the impact of an educational intervention for improving awareness of pharmacovigilance among physician, pharmacist and nurses in an Indian tertiary care teaching hospital. Material &Methods: A suitable self-administered Knowledge, attitude, practice (KAP) survey questionnaire was designed, validated using a method developed by Lynn M and survey was conducted among physician, nurses, pharmacist of kasturba hospital, where local hospital based ADR reporting system exist. An interactive educational intervention was designed for all participants of Pre-KAP questionnaire survey. The impact of effectiveness of educational intervention among health care professionals was evaluated by means of post-KAP questionnaire survey. The chi-square test and Oneway Analysis of variance was used for statistical calculations. Results: In our study a total of 255 health care professionals were responded and involved in the pre KAP and postKAP survey questionnaires. Health care professionals involved in the study were 85 Doctors, 85 Nurses and 85 pharmacists from each group. The overall response rates between pre intervention and post intervention was statistically significant between doctors, nurses and pharmacist (P value <0.001) shows that effectiveness of educational intervention for improving awareness of pharmacovigilance among physician, pharmacist and nurses. Conclusion: Imparting the knowledge and awareness of pharmacovigilance among the health care professionals by means of continues educational intervention would bring update knowledge of practice for drug safety into their every day clinical practice and also brings the adverse drug reactions (ADRs) reporting culture among them.