Department of Clinical Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Medication Safety Research Chair, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
PLoS One. 2020 May 20;15(5):e0233393. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233393. eCollection 2020.
The objective of this review is to evaluate the existing evidence about the knowledge, attitude, and perceptions (KAP) of healthcare students towards pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reactions reporting (ADRs).
A systematic literature search was conducted using MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, ERIC, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews via OVID. This review restricted the search to studies published in English from inception until December 2019.
The primary outcome was healthcare students' knowledge, attitude, and perceptions of pharmacovigilance.
Of the 664 articles identified, twenty-nine studies were included in the review. Overall, healthcare students vary in their knowledge and attitude towards pharmacovigilance and ADRs reporting. There was inconsistency in measuring KAP between the studies and the main drawback in the literature is lacking validated KAP measures.
In summation, optimal KAP assessment can be achieved through developing a standard validated measure. Our future healthcare providers should have basics pharmacovigilance knowledge in order to rationally reporting ADRs and preventing serious health problems.
本综述旨在评估医学生对药物警戒和药物不良反应报告(ADR)的知识、态度和认知(KAP)的现有证据。
通过 OVID 使用 MEDLINE、CINAHL、EMBASE、ERIC 和 Cochrane 系统评价数据库进行系统文献检索。本综述将检索范围限制为从开始到 2019 年 12 月以英文发表的研究。
主要结局是医学生对药物警戒的知识、态度和认知。
在确定的 664 篇文章中,有 29 项研究纳入了综述。总体而言,医学生对药物警戒和药物不良反应报告的知识和态度存在差异。各研究之间在 KAP 的测量上存在不一致,文献的主要缺点是缺乏经过验证的 KAP 测量。
总之,通过开发标准化的经过验证的措施,可以实现最佳的 KAP 评估。我们未来的医疗保健提供者应该具备基本的药物警戒知识,以便合理报告药物不良反应并预防严重的健康问题。