Knowledge, attitude, and practice of pharmacists towards adverse drugs reaction in west Khasi Hills

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to identify assess and evaluate the adverse drug reactions experienced by the patients from the clinic, and to monitor the adverse drug reactions by spontaneous reporting. As we all know, an adverse drug reaction is an adverse event with a causal link to a drug and can lead to causes of morbidity and mortality. Clinical pharmacists can play an essential role in detecting and preventing as well as management of adverse drug reactions. In general, the patient satisfaction and attitude in West Khasi Hills are the sole subjects of the study as many of the villagers are not able to visit the clinics in town areas in which they depend mostly on the clinical pharmacies for their health care. The entire study was a plan to carry out for a period of months from November (2020) to April (2021). The study was conducted in a cross-sectional method study design. There are about 138 willing participants in the study, most of the pharmacists in West Khasi Hills have low (89.8%) Knowledge about Pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reaction reporting, it was found that about 79.6% of responders had experienced adverse drug reactions in their practice.