Community Pharmacists' Pharmacovigilance Knowledge and Attitudes: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Abstract

As part of their post-marketing monitoring efforts, all national and regional governments are obligated to 
establish a system for reporting adverse drug reactions, often known as pharmacovigilance. Consequently, it 
was crucial to optimize one's attitude and understanding of the system. The purpose of this research was to 
survey rural public healthcare pharmacists on their pharmacovigilance knowledge and attitudes. From July to 
December 2021 in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 48 pharmacists from both hospitals and community 
pharmacies participated in this cross-sectional analytical observational study. We used chi-square to look for 
relationships between the variables, and descriptive statistics and frequency distribution analysis to get a feel 
for people's levels of understanding and sentiment about the pharmacovigilance system. Among those who 
took part, 60.4% had solid understanding and 52.1% felt positively about the system. A p-value of 0.045 further 
demonstrated the existence of a correlation between attitude and knowledge. Thus, among rural public 
healthcare pharmacists, there was a correlation between pharmacovigilance knowledge and attitude. Research 
like this strongly suggests that all healthcare providers, but notably pharmacists, should educate themselves on 
pharmacovigilance and incorporate it into their daily work