Effect of Educational Intervention on Adverse Drug Reporting by Physicians: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 1

Knowledge of the physicians of both groups regarding pharmacovigilance.

	Doctors attending CME	Doctors not attending CME
ADRs encountered per week
None	32	52*
1–5/week	53	45
6–10/week	13	2*
>10/week	2	1
Correct definition of pharmacovigilance	58	24^#
Health professional qualified to report ADR
Medical doctors	99	96
Dental doctors	83	61^#
Nurses	48	58
Pharmacists	47	44
Physiotherapists	32	15*
All healthcare professional	11	14
Doctors aware of pharmacovigilance programme of India	93	43^#
Doctors aware of regional pharmacovigilance centre in HIHT	81	36^#
Aware of any drug banned due to ADR	86	54^#
Doctors not knowing the agents to be reported for the ADR
Vaccine	20	21
Herbal medicines	79	70
Over-the-counter drugs	62	39*
Antibiotics	4	15
Topical agents	47	43

^∗𝑃<0.005; ^#𝑃<0.0001.