TY  - JOUR
U1  - Zeitschriftenartikel, wissenschaftlich - begutachtet (reviewed)
A1  - Limaye, Dnyanesh
A1  - Shah, Purav
A1  - Shah, Akhil
A1  - Pillay, Ragini
A1  - Modak, Viraj
A1  - Chaudhari, Ameya
A1  - Sydymanov, Arlan
A1  - Limaye, Vaidehi
A1  - Pitani, Ravi Shankar
A1  - Sathe, Sushama
A1  - Fortwengel, Gerhard
T1  - A study to determine the knowledge of pharmacovigilance among pharmacy students from Mumbai university
JF  - International Journal of Research in Medical Sciences
N2  - Background: Pharmacovigilance (PV); also known as drug safety surveillance, is the science of enhancing patient care and patient safety regarding the use of medicines by collecting, monitoring, assessing, and evaluating information from healthcare providers and patients. Pharmacists are pivotal players in adverse drug event (ADE) monitoring and reporting. However, most pharmacists are unaware or not knowledgeable about the guidelines used by their respective countries’ drug regulatory bodies. It is the need of the hour to train pharmacy students on the concept of pharmacovigilance.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out among pharmacy students from Mumbai University, India during May-June 2017. On the basis of the eligibility criterion 352 students were selected for the present study. Four hundred students were approached to participate in the study of which 201 agreed to participate (males: 179; females: 173). Pretested questionnaire was distributed and collected data was analyzed using IBM SPSS version 23.
Results: Overall pharmacovigilance knowledge (44%) and perception (58%) was low among the participants of the present study. Seventy four percent of the participants felt that adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting should be made compulsory for healthcare professionals. And only 21% agreed that the topic of Pharmacovigilance is well covered in pharmacy curriculum.
Conclusions: Pharmacy council of India, pharmacy teacher’s association and respective pharmacy college should take necessary steps to increase the knowledge and create awareness regarding pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reaction reporting among pharmacy students.
KW  - Adverse drug event
KW  - Adverse drug reaction
KW  - India
KW  - Knowledge
KW  - Perception
KW  - Arzneimittelnebenwirkung
KW  - Indien
KW  - Wissen
KW  - Arzneimittelüberwachung
KW  - Pharmazie
KW  - Unerwünschte Arzneimittelwirkung
KW  - Pharmacovigilance
KW  - Pharmacy
KW  - Pharmaziestudent
Y1  - 2018
UN  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-13348
SN  - 2320-6012
SS  - 2320-6012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-1334
DO  - https://doi.org/10.25968/opus-1334
N1  - DOI des Originals: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2320-6012.ijrms20183243
VL  - 2018
IS  - 6(8)
SP  - 2621
EP  - 2625
ER  -