Jnaneswar Avinash, Hazarika Suranjana Jonak, Jha Kunal, Vinay S, Kumar Gunjan
Department of Public Health Dentistry, Kalinga Institute of Dental Sciences, KIIT Deemed-to-be University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
J Educ Health Promot. 2020 Oct 30;9:282. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_250_20. eCollection 2020.
To assess the knowledge, attitude, practices (KAP), and barriers regarding pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting among medical and dental faculties of the teaching hospitals.
This study was conducted for a period of 3 months among medical and dental faculties. A self-structured, 42-item closed-ended questionnaire based on pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting was used in this study. Data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Sciences Version 21. All the items of the domains along with demographic variables were summarized as absolute and relative frequencies. Intergroup comparison was done using Kruskal-Wallis test and Mann-Whitney -test. The correlation between the domains was assessed by Spearman correlation coefficient.
Among the study subjects, 272 (60.4%) were females and 178 (39.6%) were males. The number of medical and dental faculties was 360 (80%) and 90 (20%), respectively. The mean KAP scores for medical and dental faculties were 7.58 and 5.37, 8.78 and 6.01, and 6.91 and 6.32, respectively. The Spearman correlation coefficient (ρ) was found to be significant for knowledge-attitude and knowledge-practice domains. The values obtained between attitude with practice and barrier also were significantly correlated.
Our study findings advocate that although medical faculties have better knowledge about pharmacovigilance and ADR reporting, dentists have a positive attitude, thereby suggesting a huge scope of progress if more emphasis is given on the need for continuous educational initiatives and including the topic in their academic curriculum.
评估教学医院医学和牙医学系教师在药物警戒和药品不良反应（ADR）报告方面的知识、态度、行为（KAP）及障碍。
本研究在医学和牙医学系教师中开展，为期3个月。本研究使用了一份基于药物警戒和ADR报告的42项封闭式自拟问卷。数据采用社会科学统计软件包第21版进行分析。各领域的所有项目以及人口统计学变量均以绝对频率和相对频率进行总结。组间比较采用Kruskal-Wallis检验和Mann-Whitney检验。各领域之间的相关性通过Spearman相关系数进行评估。
在研究对象中，女性有272人（60.4%），男性有178人（39.6%）。医学和牙医学系教师的人数分别为360人（80%）和90人（20%）。医学和牙医学系教师的平均KAP得分分别为7.58和5.37、8.78和6.01、6.91和6.32。Spearman相关系数（ρ）在知识-态度和知识-行为领域具有显著性。态度与行为及障碍之间的取值也显著相关。
我们的研究结果表明，尽管医学系教师对药物警戒和ADR报告有更好的了解，但牙医态度积极，从而表明如果更加强调持续教育举措的必要性并将该主题纳入其学术课程，仍有巨大的进步空间。
