{"id":4899,"date":"2023-08-01T14:27:50","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T14:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4899"},"modified":"2023-08-03T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T14:32:50","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2015-26-2-29-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2015-26-2-29-42\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2015) 26 (2) 29-42"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Evaluation of knowledge, attitude and practices of pharmacy professionals towards reporting adverse drug reactions in Sierra-Leone<\/span><\/b><\/p>


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 Margaret O. Afolabi Kanayo P. Osemene and Jame P. Komeh<\/p>


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1Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Administration, Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi <\/span>Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Osun State, Nigeria<\/span><\/p>


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2 Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone, New England, Freetown, Sierra Leone<\/p>


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Corresponding author: Kanayo Osemene.<\/p>

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Background: <\/b>Knowledge of reporting adverse drug reactions by health professionals remains unresolved.<\/p>

Objectives:<\/b> To determine the knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of practicing pharmacy professionals to the reporting of adverse drug reaction (ADR) as well as evaluate the factors that influence ADR reporting in <\/span>Sierra-Leone.<\/span><\/p>

Methods:<\/b> A cross-sectional study was conducted among 150 practicing pharmacy professionals using a pre-<\/span>tested questionnaire which elicited appropriate responses on the objectives of the study. Data were analyzed <\/span>using SPSS version 16. The relationship between KAP of ADR reporting and demographic variables was <\/span>analyzed with the chi-square statistics at P < .05 level of significance.<\/span><\/p>

Results:<\/b> The response rate was 90%. There was no significant difference between knowledge of ADR reporting 2 2 and qualification of respondents (x =2.6, P=0.59). There was a significant difference (x =3.5, P=0.003) <\/span>between years of practice of respondents, and knowledge of ADR reporting. There were significant <\/span>2 differences between the practice areas of respondents, with knowledge (x =4.2, P=0.001) and number <\/span>2 (98\/135; x =2.65, P=0.006) of ADRs reported. The difference in mean score of respondents (1.90\u00b11.35) <\/span>mean\u00b1SD that felt ADR reporting should be compulsory and those who felt otherwise (3.58\u00b11.73) mean\u00b1SD <\/span>2 was significant (x =2.1, P=0.001). Result showed that factors influencing ADR activities were professional <\/span>experience 101(74.8%), inadequate knowledge about ADRs 89 (65.9%) and access to ADR reporting forms.<\/span><\/p>

Conclusions:<\/b> The study revealed some knowledge gaps among practicing pharmacy professionals in the monitoring and reporting of ADRs in Sierra-Leone. This makes it imperative to design educational <\/span>programmes on ADR activities for practicing pharmacy professionals in order to improve ADR reporting.<\/span><\/p>

Key words:<\/b> Practicing pharmacy professionals, ADR reporting, Sierra-Leone<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Evaluation of knowledge, attitude and practices of pharmacy professionals towards reporting adverse drug reactions in Sierra-Leone  Margaret O. Afolabi Kanayo P. Osemene and Jame P. Komeh 1Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Administration, Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Osun State, Nigeria 2 Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone, New England, Freetown, Sierra Leone Corresponding author: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4899"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4909,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4899\/revisions\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}