A national survey of knowledge, attitude, practice, and barriers towards pharmacovigilance and adverse drug reaction reporting among hospital pharmacy practitioners in the United Arab Emirates

Figures & data

Table 1 Sample distribution among the seven emirates (n = 386)

Table 2 Socio-demographic characteristics of the pharmacists (n = 342)

Table 3 Knowledge of pharmacists towards PV and ADRs reporting (n = 342)

Table 4 Pharmacists’ knowledge towards PV and ADR reporting vs sociodemographic characteristics

Table 5 Attitude towards ADR reporting among hospital pharmacists (n = 342)

Table 6 Pharmacists’ attitude towards PV and ADR reporting vs sociodemographic characteristics

Table 7 Reporting departments (n = 177^a)

Table 8 Pharmacovigilance (PV) and adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting practices (n = 342)

Table 9 Pharmacists’ practice towards PV and ADR reporting vs sociodemographic characteristics

Table 10 The barriers to implement PV and ADR reporting (n = 342)

Table 11 The barriers to implement PV and ADR reporting vs sociodemographic characteristics

Table 12 Factors that would encourage pharmacists to report an ADRs and implement PV system (n = 342)

Table 13 The suggestions to implement PV and ADR reporting vs sociodemographic characteristics

Data availability

The data that support the findings of this study are available from the first author, upon reasonable request.