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ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DRUG INFORMATION CENTER AMONG HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Lakshmikanth Sankara*, Mubashir Angolkar and Veena Herekar

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Aim & Objective: To assess the knowledge of health professionals towards Drug Information Centers. Methodology: Cross sectional study, study was conducted in Doctors, PG Medical students, Interns, Nurses, Pharmacists and PG Pharmacy students of a hospital in Belagavi. All Health care professionals (Doctors, PG Medical students, Nurses, Pharmacists and PG Pharmacy student). Result: This cross sectional study was conducted for a period of 6 months from August to 31st January 2018 among Healthcare professionals (Doctors, PG Medical students, Nurses, Pharmacists and PG Pharmacy student) in a hospital in Belagavi. Pre tested pre Designed Questionnaire was administered to 400 randomly selected Healthcare Professionals. Discussion: Out of 400 health professionals who participated in the study, majority 299(74.75%) were females and remaining 101(25.25%) are male participants. A study conducted in Enugu state reported that 61.2% of study participants were males.[9] Majority 138(34.5%) of the study participants had completed General Nursing Midwifery (GNM), 70(17.5%) participants completed Postgraduation in medicine, 67(16.75%) participants completed MBBS, 39(9.75%) participants completed BSc Nursing,72(18%) participants were doing M. Pharmacy, 11(2.75%) participants completed D.Pharmacy and only 3(0.75%) participants completed ANM. Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, it was concluded that over all knowledge of health professional in study area on Drug information centre was poor.

Keywords: Health professionals, Cross sectional study.