Assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice of healthcare professionals of TGSH towards adverse drug reactions reporting, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, 2022

Background: Adverse drug reactions are common problems which occur both in developed and developing countries but reporting of these problems is low still now but reporting rate in developed countries and developing countries is somewhat different. Adverse drug reaction monitoring is an area of drug information that has been given little attention yet. Spontaneous reporting is currently the major back bone for the detection of adverse drug reactions. The aim of this study was, to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices of health care professionals of TGSH towards ADR reporting, Bahir Dar, North West Ethiopia. Method: An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted among health care professionals in TGSH, Bahirdar, North West Ethiopia. The data was collected from Augusts to September, 2022 by using self-administered structured questionnaire from doctors, pharmacists and nurses. The data collected was entered and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science for window version 25. Result: From 250 respondents, (144, 57.6%) were nurses, (78, 31.2%) were doctors, and (28, 11.2%) were pharmacist. About (128, 51.2%) study participants had an inadequate knowledge towards ADR reporting, and more than half of study participants (160, 64%) had poor practice to report the adverse drug reactions they encountered. But the majority of participants (147, 58.8%) had good attitude towards ADR reporting. Conclusion: Even though more than half of health care professionals had good attitude towards ADRs reporting, they had inadequate knowledge and poor practice towards ADRs reporting.