Journal of Applied Pharmacy
Open Access

Abstract

Assessment of Knowledge about Drug Information Center among Health Professionals

Lakshmikanth Sankara

Introduction: Drug Information Centre (DIC) provides information to physicians, pharmacist, nurses and other allied health care professionals. The Concept of DIC started in India by the year of 1997. In India, irrational use of drugs is common and this has led to antibiotic resistance, adverse drug reactions, drug interactions and other drug related problems.

Objective: To assess the Knowledge about Drug Information Center among Health Professionals.

Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted in Belagavi city. Data was collected from a hospital in Belagavi, involving 400 Health Professionals. Pretested structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. Written informed consent was taken prior to data collection. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: 36% participants had average knowledge, 39.3% participants had poor knowledge and 24.7% had good knowledge about Drug Information Centre.

Conclusion: It was concluded that over all knowledge of health professional in study area on DIC was poor.

Keywords: Knowledge; DIC: Drug Information Centre

Published Date: 2021-03-18; Received Date: 2020-06-06