Background: Pharmacotherapy is an integral part of combating a disease or its symptoms. Drug therapy for a disease has two sides: one is beneficial and the other is harmful. For this, there is a branch for monitoring these types of adverse drug reactions known as Pharmacovigilance. Every healthcare professional should actively participate in pharmacovigilance programs by reporting Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) properly instead of only managing the patients. Worldwide reports of ADRs are kept up to date in an international database maintained by the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC, WHO), located in Sweden. Pharmacovigilance programs require attention and evaluation regularly for ADR reporting among new-comer healthcare Personnel in the medical field. Objective: To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) regarding pharmacovigilance among healthcare Personnel working at a teaching institute’s hospital. Materials and Methods: Across-sectional study was conducted using a pre-designed, semi-structured pre-tested questionnaire based KAP study was carried out among healthcare Personnel after approval from Institutional Ethics Committee. Result: A total of 560 participants participated and filled up questionnaires. 97.10% of participants knew about pharmacovigilance and 94.50% of participants knew how to fill out the ADR form. Resident doctors’ knowledge was found higher compared to nursing staff while undergraduate students’ knowledge was found higher compared to intern doctors. Significant difference in attitude was observed between different sub-groups of health care Personnel. 69.64% of participants reported the ADR to their superior or any authority and 95.40% encouraged patients to report any unusual symptoms or reactions they experienced with medications. However, there was a gap between identifying and reporting ADRs. Conclusion: Most healthcare Personnel knew about the concept of pharmacovigilance, the role of pharmacovigilance in post-marketing surveillance, the national pharmacovigilance centre or authority in a country, and also knew how to fill out the Suspected ADR form, but the practice of reporting ADR was relatively poor.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.