Awareness, knowledge, attitude, and practice of adverse drug reaction reporting among health workers in primary health centres participating in seasonal malaria chemoprevention campaign in Nigeria in 2022: a cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluating health workers' knowledge and practice of adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting is an important step in identifying gaps in quality ADR reporting during public health interventions like the seasonal malaria chemoprevention (SMC) campaign. Pharmacovigilance (PV) monitoring is vital in SMC due to the number of children exposed to malaria medicines for a period of 4 or 5 months during the campaign. In Nigeria more than 10 million children are exposed to SMC medicines every year. The scale of this intervention emphasised the need for efficient and effective safety monitoring during the campaign. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate healthcare workers' (HCW) awareness, knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of ADR reporting in health facilities partici

SUBMITTER: Rotimi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11337761 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature