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Table 5 Healthcare Students’ Current PV and ADR Practice

From: Pharmacovigilance in healthcare education: students’ knowledge, attitude and perception: a cross-sectional study in Saudi Arabia

Q. No

Correct Answers (%)

Total

Medicine

Pharmacy

Dentistry

Nursing

P-value

1

Pharmacovigilance is well covered in your college curriculum

49.0

9.0

23.8

6.8

9.4

< 0.0001

2

Students in your college trained on how to report ADR

41.0

5.8

22.3

5.2

7.7

< 0.0001

3

Students in your college can perform ADR reporting during their clerkship

56.1

10.3

28.6

8.2

9.0

< 0.0001

4

Have you received some form of PV education previously?

39.4

7.6

19.9

5.9

6.1

< 0.0001

  1. Note: Study sample comprised of 710 healthcare students; 282 pharmacy students, 208 medical students, 123 dentistry students, and 97 nurse students
  2. The percentages of responses indicating correct answers to the perception questions. P-value derived from the chi-square test
  3. Abbreviations: ADR Adverse drug reaction, PV Pharmacovigilance