Investigation and Analysis on Public Cognition Status for Adverse Drug Reaction in Guangdong Province / 中国药房

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE:To understand the public cognitive status about the adverse drug reaction(ADR),and provide refer-ence for improving the ADR reporting system. METHODS:Field to fill out and recycling questionnaire on the spot were conducted to investigate the cognition of ADR about 1 379 people from the Pearl River Delta,Eastern,Western and Northern region of Guangdong Province,and analyze related influential factors. RESULTS:Totally 1 500 questionnaires were sent out and 1 379 were effective with effective rate of 91.9%. Among the respondents,931(67.5%)could correctly answer the question of ADR concept, the correct rate showed lowest in the people lived in Northern region and with no less than 40 years old and low education;only 36.1% could correctly know the cause of ADR;only 388 (28.1%) knew the individuals can report ADR;723 (52.4%) thought hospital should be held responsible for ADR;once the ADR appeared,62.2% of respondents would choose to report to the hospi-tal. The main causes of discourage individual report of ADR were due to less know about where,how and which relevant depart-ments could report,and the report way was not convenient and the procedures were cumbersome. CONCLUSIONS:The public awareness of the ADR concept is not high and the enthusiasm of report is relatively low. Therefore,the propaganda of public aware-ness of ADR should be strengthened to encourage the public to participate in the ADR report actively,and broaden the channels of ADR personal report.