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Community pharmacists play a vital role in identifying adverse drug reactions and ensuring patient medication safety. A study in Tirupati City assessed the knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding adverse drug reaction reporting among qualified, registered community pharmacists. The findings revealed that most pharmacists displayed a positive attitude toward reporting systems, with over eighty percent aware of the identification and reporting process. However, overall knowledge levels were largely moderate, and over ninety percent of respondents demonstrated inadequate practical reporting behaviours. Furthermore, under eight percent of pharmacists had received formal adverse drug reaction reporting training. Strong positive correlations were observed between knowledge, attitude, and practice. The findings indicate that while positive attitudes are widespread, regular educational initiatives and targeted training programmes from monitoring centres are necessary to address knowledge gaps and translate willingness into active reporting practice.
Adverse drug reactions present serious risks to patient health and healthcare systems. Community pharmacists are ideally placed to spot these harmful effects early. Understanding where their knowledge and practices fall short enables healthcare authorities to target educational support effectively, ensuring drug safety monitoring programmes function as intended and better protect the public from medication-related harm.
The findings highlight an immediate need for professional training tools, continuing education modules, and reporting support services for community pharmacists and monitoring centres. While applied and tested at a regional level, the abstract does not indicate a commercial application pathway or product.
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Background and Aims: Integration of Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) reporting practices among community pharmacists (CPs) is essential to enhance the function of the Pharmacovigilance Program of India (PvPI) and promote medication safety. The study aimed to assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) toward ADR reporting among CPs in Tirupati City. Methods: A cross-sectional analytical design was used to explore the KAP of the CPs regarding the ADR reporting system. CPs registered in the State Pharmacy Council, qualified with a diploma/bachelor's/master's in pharmacy/doctor of pharmacy, and willing to participate, regardless of pharmacy ownership, were included. An interview-based, structured, pre-validated questionnaire was used to obtain responses from the CPs. The questionnaire comprises demographic information and KAP regarding ADR reporting. The knowledge (good, moderate, and poor) and attitude (positive, neutral, and negative) domains were categorized based on Bloom's cut-off criteria. The practice domain was categorized as adequate or inadequate based on the median of the maximal score. Binary and multiple logistic regression analyses were used to identify factors associated with CPs' KAP. Results: The majority of the CPs had a positive attitude (109; 78.42%) toward ADR reporting. However, they demonstrated moderate knowledge (56; 40.29%) and inadequate practices (126; 90.65%) about ADR reporting. More than 80% of the CPs were aware of the ADR identification and reporting process. Only 7.91% of the CPs have undergone ADR reporting training. There was a positive correlation between knowledge versus attitude, knowledge versus practice, and attitude versus practice of the CPs toward ADR reporting. Conclusion: Over three-fourths of community pharmacists showed a positive attitude toward ADR reporting, but attitude alone cannot drive practice without adequate knowledge. Strengthening knowledge is vital to translate attitude into practice. Hence, the ADR monitoring center, Tirupati, should organize periodic training to enhance ADR reporting and improve medication safety.
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DOI: 10.1002/hsr2.73122
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