Bepari Asmatanzeem, Assiri Rasha Assad, AlYahya Maya Abdullah, AlGhamdi Shaden Jamaan, AlGhamdi Amal Mohammed, AlOnazi Afrah Asaad
Department of Basic Health Sciences, College of Medicine, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
College of Medicine, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Pharm J. 2020 Jul;28(7):828-836. doi: 10.1016/j.jsps.2020.06.002. Epub 2020 Jun 12.
The low reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in Saudi Arabia is prevalent among health-care professionals and is responsible for poor ADR signal detection. Therefore, all healthcare institutes connected with patient concern require joint and sustained efforts to strengthen ADR reporting by providing harmless and efficient medication.
The current study was performed to estimate the awareness corresponding to the knowledge, perspective, and basic practice skills about the Saudi pharmacovigilance system among students of different health-care professionals of a Saudi Female University.
MATERIAL & METHODS: A questionnaire was planned and standardized by a thorough literature review. Questions were classified: Group 1 had ten knowledge-based, group 2 five attitude-based, and group 3 four basic practice skills-based questions of pharmacovigilance (PV). Also, determinants that hindered them from becoming part of the pharmacovigilance program were reported. Such 600 questionnaires were distributed among the interns, final and prefinal year students of different health care professionals of Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh. The participants' awareness and practice skills were graded in 3 categories as unacceptable, inadequate, and adequate, depending upon the mean score along with identification of their type of perception towards PV. The data was interpreted by calculating the frequencies, one-way ANOVA, and by post-hoc Tukey-Kramer HSD multiple comparison test.
Five hundred ninety-two questionnaires were statistically investigated. Students' awareness and basic practice skills of pharmacovigilance were found to be inadequate, but positive perception towards PV.
Our study showed that awareness and practice skills of PV among students of different health care professionals stand insufficient but favourable perceptions towards PV. Regular educative interventions can increase these parameters of pharmacovigilance.
沙特阿拉伯医疗保健专业人员中药物不良反应（ADR）报告率较低的情况普遍存在，这导致ADR信号检测不佳。因此，所有与患者护理相关的医疗机构都需要共同持续努力，通过提供安全有效的药物来加强ADR报告。
本研究旨在评估沙特一所女子大学不同医疗保健专业学生对沙特药物警戒系统的知识、态度和基本实践技能的认知情况。
通过全面的文献综述设计并标准化了一份问卷。问题分为三组：第一组有十个基于知识的问题，第二组有五个基于态度的问题，第三组有四个基于药物警戒（PV）基本实践技能的问题。此外，还报告了阻碍他们参与药物警戒计划的因素。向利雅得努拉·本·阿卜杜勒拉赫曼公主大学不同医疗保健专业的实习生、最后一年和倒数第二年的学生发放了600份此类问卷。根据平均得分以及对PV的认知类型，将参与者的认知和实践技能分为不可接受、不足和充分三个等级。通过计算频率、单向方差分析和事后Tukey-Kramer HSD多重比较检验对数据进行解释。
对592份问卷进行了统计学调查。发现学生对药物警戒的认知和基本实践技能不足，但对PV持积极态度。
我们的研究表明，不同医疗保健专业学生对PV的认知和实践技能不足，但对PV的看法较为积极。定期的教育干预可以提高药物警戒的这些参数。
