A STUDY TO EVALUATE THE KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF PHARMACOVIGILANCE AMONG DENTAL PRACTITIONERS IN A DENTAL COLLEGE IN GREATER NOIDA
*Dr. Rajeshwari Gore, Nidhi Arora, Nimisha Aggarwal, Nisha Gupta and Nidhi Priya
ABSTRACT
Aim: To evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice of Pharmacovigilance among dentists in a teaching dental college in Greater Noida. Material and Methods: - We conducted a cross-sectional questionnaire based study among 82 dentists working in a dental college. The questionnaire was validated first by conducting a pilot study among 10 subjects. Written consent was obtained from the participants before initiating the study. Result: We found that 70.73% of the subjects were aware about Pharmacovigilance, while 41.4% exactly knew what PVG consists of. 90.62% people thought that reporting to ADR is necessary and 76.82% thought that AMC (Adverse reaction Monitoring Centre) should be established in every health institute. 35.36% of people had gone through the articles of pharmacovigilance and almost 29.26% of the subjects had come across an adverse drug reaction. Conclusion: We have come a long way from were we initially started in the field of pharmacovigilance but underrepoting remains an important problem area which need to be addressed and taken care of.
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