www.ijbcp.com International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology | July 2017 | Vol 6 | Issue 7 Page 1806 IJBCP International Journal of Basic & Clinical Pharmacology Print ISSN: 2319-2003 | Online ISSN: 2279-0780 Original Research Article Educational intervention to improve knowledge, attitude and practice of pharmacovigilance among nursing staff in tertiary care hospital Sadhana Hingorani*, Chaitali Mehta, Paresh Gajera, S. K. Srivastava INTRODUCTION One of the major reasons of morbidity and mortality all over the world is adverse drug reactions. Adverse drug reactions are encountered commonly in daily practice, most of which are preventable. 1,2 WHO defines ADR as a response to a drug which is noxious, unintended and which occurs at doses normally used in man for the prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy of disease or for the modification of physiological function. Pharmacovigilance is defined by WHO: “The science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other drug related problem.” Primary source of information for Pharmacovigilance is from spontaneous reporting by health care professional. Under reporting of ADRs is a major problem affecting the safety of patient. It is important to enhance the awareness and knowledge of the health care professionals in India to improve the reporting. Several studies have been conducted to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) towards Pharmacovigilance among clinicians, pharmacist, nurses. 3-8 Nursing staff is important health care professional to detect and reporting ADR particularly for hospitalized patient as they are in contact with patient and available round the clock. Thus the present study was planned among nursing staff as mentioned below: ABSTRACT Background: The present study was planned to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice among nursing staff and to evaluate the effect of educational intervention. Methods: The questionnaire related with knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) were given to nursing staff before and after the educational intervention in a tertiary care hospital. The data obtained were subjected to statistical analysis. Results: The training given in different sessions has improved KAP among nursing staff. Ninety six percent of them responded correctly regarding who can report ADR as compared to pre training session (69%). Regarding pharmacovigilance as purpose of safe use of medicines was responded by 71% after training as compared to 54% before training. In questions related to PvPI, 94% of nursing staff responded correctly about the scale to be used for causality assessment in comparison to 79% before training. Majority of them were of opinion that only unknown and serious ADR should be reported whereas after training they answered that all the ADR should be reported. A significant improvement has been noticed in questions related to attitude and practice. Conclusions: The educational intervention to improve KAP among nursing staff has resulted in significant improvement. Keywords: Adverse drug reaction, Nursing staff, Pharmacovigilance DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2319-2003.ijbcp20172753 Department of Pharmacology, Surat Municipal Institute of Medical Education and Research, Surat, Gujarat, India Received: 19 April 2017 Accepted: 16 May 2017 *Correspondence to: Dr. Sadhana Hingorani, Email: sadhanakh01@ gmail.com Copyright: © the author(s), publisher and licensee Medip Academy. This is an open- access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non- Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non- commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.