Abstract

Adverse drug reactions (ADR) contribute significantly in health care cost through increased patient morbidity and mortality. Thus, there is an urgent need to create awareness among health care professionals towards ADR monitoring and reporting. A Prospective cross sectional survey based study, questionnaire were distributed to the pharmacy faculty in and around Guntur. A total of 105 faculty members were included in the study out of which 65(61.9%) are males and 45(38.09%) are females. A good number of faculty 30 (28.5%) have answered that ADRs reporting may have legal consequences. Only small number of these faculty, 25 (23.8%) have reported ADR that come across during their professional career. We conclude that the knowledge regarding ADRs was found to be not up to the mark and there was good awareness on reporting of ADRs, but most of them were not reporting. Hence more ADR related awareness is needed.