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Adverse drug reactions reporting : Knowledge and opinion of general public in Penang, Malaysia

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to explore the knowledge of the general population towards ADR and their reporting system. METHODS: An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire (15 items) was designed. The questionnaire was subjected to face validity and content validity. The reliability...

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Autores principales: Elkalmi, Ramadan, Hassali, Mohamed Azmi, Al-lela, Omar Qutaiba, Jawad Awadh, Ammar Ihsan, Al-Shami, Abdul Kareem, Jamshed, Shazia Qasim
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3778592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24082699
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.116824
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author Elkalmi, Ramadan
Hassali, Mohamed Azmi
Al-lela, Omar Qutaiba
Jawad Awadh, Ammar Ihsan
Al-Shami, Abdul Kareem
Jamshed, Shazia Qasim
author_facet Elkalmi, Ramadan
Hassali, Mohamed Azmi
Al-lela, Omar Qutaiba
Jawad Awadh, Ammar Ihsan
Al-Shami, Abdul Kareem
Jamshed, Shazia Qasim
author_sort Elkalmi, Ramadan
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description OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to explore the knowledge of the general population towards ADR and their reporting system. METHODS: An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire (15 items) was designed. The questionnaire was subjected to face validity and content validity. The reliability coefficient was found to be 0.71. This study recruited proportionately large convenience sample of the general public in Penang. Interviews using a structured questionnaire were conducted over a week period in August 2009. The recommended sample size was calculated to be 368. RESULTS: Three hundred thirty-four responses were received. Slightly more than half of the respondents were in the age group of 18-25 years (53.6%; n = 179). When asked about the sources of their medication majority of them reported medical doctor (85.6%), whereas small number (34.7%) reported community pharmacists as sources of medications. Three-quarter of the respondents (77.2%) get their information about the side-effects of drugs from physicians, followed by pharmacist (44.6%). More than half of the respondents (65.6%, n = 219) reported unawareness about the existence of ADR center set up by the Ministry of Health. CONCLUSION: Respondents reflected inadequate knowledge on ADR reporting. This needs to be corrected as the trend of future pharmacovigilance is toward the patient. Moreover, the new trend seems to be more appropriate as the patient is the group of the people who are directly affected from the ADR of a particular drug and not the health-care providers. Furthermore, the patient will be informed about the economic implications of not reporting ADR. It is recommended that government agencies, like MADRAC needs to find ways to increase patient- reported ADR cases.
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spelling pubmed-37785922013-09-30 Adverse drug reactions reporting : Knowledge and opinion of general public in Penang, Malaysia Elkalmi, Ramadan Hassali, Mohamed Azmi Al-lela, Omar Qutaiba Jawad Awadh, Ammar Ihsan Al-Shami, Abdul Kareem Jamshed, Shazia Qasim J Pharm Bioallied Sci Original Article OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to explore the knowledge of the general population towards ADR and their reporting system. METHODS: An anonymous, self-administered questionnaire (15 items) was designed. The questionnaire was subjected to face validity and content validity. The reliability coefficient was found to be 0.71. This study recruited proportionately large convenience sample of the general public in Penang. Interviews using a structured questionnaire were conducted over a week period in August 2009. The recommended sample size was calculated to be 368. RESULTS: Three hundred thirty-four responses were received. Slightly more than half of the respondents were in the age group of 18-25 years (53.6%; n = 179). When asked about the sources of their medication majority of them reported medical doctor (85.6%), whereas small number (34.7%) reported community pharmacists as sources of medications. Three-quarter of the respondents (77.2%) get their information about the side-effects of drugs from physicians, followed by pharmacist (44.6%). More than half of the respondents (65.6%, n = 219) reported unawareness about the existence of ADR center set up by the Ministry of Health. CONCLUSION: Respondents reflected inadequate knowledge on ADR reporting. This needs to be corrected as the trend of future pharmacovigilance is toward the patient. Moreover, the new trend seems to be more appropriate as the patient is the group of the people who are directly affected from the ADR of a particular drug and not the health-care providers. Furthermore, the patient will be informed about the economic implications of not reporting ADR. It is recommended that government agencies, like MADRAC needs to find ways to increase patient- reported ADR cases. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3778592/ /pubmed/24082699 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.116824 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Elkalmi, Ramadan
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Al-lela, Omar Qutaiba
Jawad Awadh, Ammar Ihsan
Al-Shami, Abdul Kareem
Jamshed, Shazia Qasim
Adverse drug reactions reporting : Knowledge and opinion of general public in Penang, Malaysia
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title_fullStr Adverse drug reactions reporting : Knowledge and opinion of general public in Penang, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Adverse drug reactions reporting : Knowledge and opinion of general public in Penang, Malaysia
title_short Adverse drug reactions reporting : Knowledge and opinion of general public in Penang, Malaysia
title_sort adverse drug reactions reporting : knowledge and opinion of general public in penang, malaysia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3778592/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24082699
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-7406.116824
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