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Medication Safety :Perceptions and Gaps among Medical Undergraduates
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Aravind Vasudevan1   , Neethu Mohan1 , HariSankar KN1 , Sabeena Kizhedath1 , Dhanya S Palappallil *2 |
1- GMC Kottayam
2- GMC Kottayam , drspdhanya@gmail.com |
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Introduction
Medication errors occur in all clinical domains, affecting all populations from neonates to elderly. A medication error is any error occurring in the medication-use process. It is a global health concern, since it affect patients and cost the healthcare system billions of dollars annually. Providers should take an active role in maintaining safe medication practices by taking time to instruct patients on when and how to take medications and discuss potential side effects and drug-drug interactions. Modern medicine medical students being the future of health care development should have sufficient knowledge along with a positive attitude and precise practice measures for implementing medication safety. There is paucity of studies regarding this and hence the objective was to describe the knowledge, attitude and practice on medication safety among second year MBBS students of Government Medical College in Kerala.
Method
This cross-sectional study was conducted in September 2022 in association with Pharmacovigilance awareness week. All the second MBBS students were requested to participate in the study. A validated questionnaire was prepared by the investigators referring to previous studies and it consisted of 25 questions (9 questions each for knowledge and attitude , 7 questions for practice). The questionnaire was administered as Google Fill Out Form .
Results
Among the 167 students of second MBBS ,144 responded giving a response rate of 86.23%. Most of the students were unaware about the precise concept of Pharmacovigilance(83.3%) and root cause analysis in medication safety( 85.4%).The mean total Knowledge score was 3.98±1.736 and the median total Attitude and Practice scores were 6( Interquartile Range-2) and 5( IQR-1) respectively.
Conclusion- Majority of the students had positive attitude and satisfactory practice skills even though the knowledge is poor. This necessitates the need of further awareness classes and programme addressing medication safety.
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| Keywords: Medication safety, Medication errors, Pharmacovigilance |
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Type of Study: Original Article |
Subject:
Pharmacology
Received: 2023/03/11 | Accepted: 2024/06/11 | Published: 2024/06/11
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