KAP Towards Detecting, Monitoring, and Reporting ADR Among Pharmacy Students: A Cross-Sectional Study

Aim: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practice towards detecting, monitoring, and reporting ADR among pharmacy students through online survey. Methods: Cross sectional study was carried out in pharmacy colleges through online survey in Kerala and Tamil Nadu for a period of 6 months. The data was collected through google forms. Students details were obtained from a specially designed google form contain name, age, gender, state, college, course of study, year of study and email id. The online survey form contains 21 KAP questions. All the response were documented in the google sheets and the response was analyzed using descriptive statistics. Result: A total of 385 pharmacy students participated in the study in which 60.25% were female and 39.74% were male. Most of the students were in between the age group of 22-33 years. A total of (17.9%) B Pharm, (13.7%) D Pharm, (14.2%) M Pharm, (54%) Pharm D students had participated in the study. The present study showed that pharmacy students had difficulty in reporting ADR, of which most of them had difficulty in deciding whether ADR occurred or not (41.81%). Conclusion: The study conclude that pharmacy students have favorable knowledge, attitude, and practice on ADR. Providing special training and educational programme may increase the KAP of the students towards ADRs.