Table 3.
Respondents’ perception on ADR reporting and pharmacovigilance.
| Questions | Answers (%) |
P-value (% of agreement) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strongly agree | Agree | Neutral | Disagree | Strongly disagree | Gender | Ethnicity | |
| ADR reporting should be made compulsory for healthcare professionals | 50.0 | 39.8 | 9.3 | 0.9 | – | 0.874 | 0.267 |
| Information on how to report ADRs should be taught to students | 65.7 | 30.6 | 2.8 | 0.9 | – | 0.351 | 0.602 |
| With my present knowledge, I am very well prepared to report any ADRs noticeable in my future practice | 3.7 | 26.9 | 56.5 | 11.1 | 1.9 | 0.040∗ | 0.770 |
| Healthcare is one of the most important professions to report adverse drug reactions | 65.7 | 25.9 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 0.588 | 0.562 |
| Serious and unexpected reactions that are not fatal or life-threatening during clinical trials must not be reported | 2.8 | 1.9 | 5.6 | 38.0 | 51.9 | 0.610 | 0.361 |
| The purpose of ADR spontaneous reporting system is to measure the incidence of ADR | 16.7 | 59.3 | 18.5 | 5.6 | – | 0.659 | 0.4268 |
| Any ADR (serious or non-serious) should be reported spontaneously | 43.5 | 44.4 | 7.4 | 3.7 | 0.9 | 0.421 | 0.003 |
| Reason for not reporting a suspected ADR is due to the uncertainty of its association with drugs | 13.9 | 50.9 | 23.1 | 7.4 | 4.6 | 0.038∗ | 0.804 |
| Patients should be counselled about ADR every time their medications are dispensed | 31.5 | 55.6 | 8.3 | 4.6 | – | 0.341 | 0.807 |
| Female patients should be asked if she is pregnant when dispensing medications to them | 75.0 | 21.3 | 2.8 | 0.9 | – | 0.437 | 0.012 |
*
P value <0.05 level of significance.