Table 3.
Attitudes and practices of PV and ADR reporting among physicians and pharmacists working at the polyclinics in Kuwait (n = 485)
| Physicians, n = 318 (65.6%) | Pharmacists, n = 167 (34.4%) | Total, n = 485 (100%) |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attitude | ||||
| Which method would you prefer for sending information to an ADR reporting center? | 0.680 | |||
| E-mail/a website | 160 (50.3) | 86 (54.1) | 246 (51.6) | |
| Direct contact | 103 (32.4) | 50 (31.4) | 153 (32.1) | |
| Telephone | 37 (11.6) | 13 (8.2) | 50 (10.5) | |
| Post | 15 (4.7) | 7 (4.4) | 22 (4.6) | |
| Other | 3 (0.3) | 3 (1.9) | 6 (1.3) | |
| Practice | ||||
| Have you ever identified an ADR in any patient? | 0.006 | |||
| Yes | 257 (80.8) | 115 (69.7) | 372 (77.0) | |
| No | 61 (19.2) | 50 (30.3) | 111 (23.0) | |
| Number of identified ADR in patients | 0.522 | |||
| <5 | 107 (41.6) | 47 (42.3) | 154 (41.8) | |
| 5–10 | 74 (28.8) | 37 (33.3) | 111 (30.2) | |
| >10 | 76 (29.6) | 27 (24.3) | 103 (28.0) | |
| Have you ever reported an ADR? | 0.036 | |||
| Yes | 98 (30.8) | 35 (21.7) | 133 (27.8) | |
| No | 220 (69.2) | 126 (78.3) | 346 (72.2) | |
| Are ADR reported as part of “incident reports” at your institution? | 0.219 | |||
| Yes | 79 (24.8) | 33 (19.9) | 112 (23.1) | |
| No/I Don't know | 239 (75.2) | 133 (80.1) | 372 (76.9) | |
Values are expressed as n (%) and may not add up due to missing data. PV, pharmacovigilance; ADR, adverse drug reactions. p values were generated using the Pearson χ2 test.