Health Care Professionals’ Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice towards Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting and Associated Factors at Selected Public Hospitals in Northeast Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 3
General awareness of HCPs about ADR reporting in selected public hospitals, Northeast Ethiopia, May 2019.
Questions
Frequency
Percentage
To whom do you think that ADRs should be reported?
Manufacturers
17
14.91
MOH
32
28.07
EPA
22
19.30
EFDA
37
32.46
DTC of the respective health facility
19
16.67
Pharmacy department
23
20.18
Who is primarily responsible to remind and follow-up patients about side effects of drugs they are given?
Physicians
74
64.91
Pharmacists
94
82.46
Nurses
80
70.18
Midwifery
66
57.89
Health officers
72
63.16
What is your source of information about ADR?
National drug formulary and STG
64
56.14
Standard text books
53
46.49
Drug sales man
14
12.28
Notes from the training
19
16.67
Search engines (Internet)
23
20.18
Journal articles
14
12.28
Package inserts
24
21.05
Advertisement brochures/leaflets
20
17.54
Direct call to a pharmaceutical company
11
9.65
Pharmaceutical company representative
16
14.04
What possible factor(s) predispose a patient to ADR?
Dispensing error
87
76.32
Prescription error
92
80.70
Overdose
86
75.44
Life style of the patient
79
69.30
Nonadherence
55
48.25
Correct knowledge. MOH: Ministry of Health; EFDA: Food, Medicine, Health Care Administrative and Control Authority; STG: Standard Treatment Guideline; EPA: Ethiopian Pharmaceutical Association; DTC: Drug Therapeutic Committee.
