Introduction

The low reporting of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in Saudi Arabia is prevalent among health-care professionals and is responsible for poor ADR signal detection. Therefore, all healthcare institutes connected with patient concern require joint and sustained efforts to strengthen ADR reporting by providing harmless and efficient medication.

Objectives of the study

The current study was performed to estimate the awareness corresponding to the knowledge, perspective, and basic practice skills about the Saudi pharmacovigilance system among students of different health-care professionals of a Saudi Female University.

Material & methods

A questionnaire was planned and standardized by a thorough literature review. Questions were classified: Group 1 had ten knowledge-based, group 2 five attitude-based, and group 3 four basic practice skills-based questions of pharmacovigilance (PV). Also, determinants that hindered them from becoming part of the pharmacovigilance program were reported. Such 600 questionnaires were distributed among the interns, final and prefinal year students of different health care professionals of Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh. The participants' awareness and practice skills were graded in 3 categories as unacceptable, inadequate, and adequate, depending upon the mean score along with identification of their type of perception towards PV. The data was interpreted by calculating the frequencies, one-way ANOVA, and by post-hoc Tukey-Kramer HSD multiple comparison test.

Results

Five hundred ninety-two questionnaires were statistically investigated. Students' awareness and basic practice skills of pharmacovigilance were found to be inadequate, but positive perception towards PV.

Conclusion

Our study showed that awareness and practice skills of PV among students of different health care professionals stand insufficient but favourable perceptions towards PV. Regular educative interventions can increase these parameters of pharmacovigilance.

中文翻译：

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沙特女子大学不同医疗保健专业人员的学生对沙特药物警戒系统的认识、观点和基本实践技能的比较评估。

介绍

在沙特阿拉伯，医疗保健专业人员中普遍存在药物不良反应 (ADR) 报告率低的现象，这也是导致 ADR 信号检测不佳的原因。因此，所有与患者相关的医疗机构都需要共同持续努力，通过提供无害且高效的药物来加强 ADR 报告。

研究目的

本研究旨在评估沙特女子大学不同医疗保健专业人员的学生对沙特药物警戒系统的知识、观点和基本实践技能的认识。

材料与方法

通过彻底的文献回顾，规划并标准化了一份调查问卷。问题进行了分类：第 1 组有 10 个基于知识的药物警戒 (PV) 问题，第 2 组有 5 个基于态度的问题，第 3 组有 4 个基于基本实践技能的药物警戒 (PV) 问题。此外，还报告了阻碍他们成为药物警戒计划一部分的决定因素。这 600 份调查问卷分发给了利雅得努拉·宾特·阿卜杜勒拉曼公主大学不同医疗保健专业人员的实习生、期末和预科生。参与者的意识和实践技能被分为 3 个类别：不可接受、不充分和充分，具体取决于平均分以及对 PV 感知类型的识别。通过计算频率、单向方差分析和事后 Tukey-Kramer HSD 多重比较测试来解释数据。

结果

对五百九十二份问卷进行了统计调查。学生对药物警戒的认识和基本实践技能不足，但对PV有积极的看法。

结论

我们的研究表明，不同医疗保健专业的学生对PV的认识和实践技能不足，但对PV的看法良好。定期的教育干预可以提高药物警戒的这些参数。