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Background: Pharmacovigilance (PV or PhV), also known as drug safety, is the pharmacological science relating to the collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products. The Pharmacovigilance Program of India (PvPI), which has been functioning since July 2010, was renamed by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare of the Indian government. This study main objective to assess the current knowledge, attitude and practice of pharmacovigilance in community pharmacist. Methods: Self-prepared and validated questionnaires were distributed among community pharmacists in India through online forms for 8 months, a cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was used, with convenience sampling utilized. Responses from 2205 subjects were analyzed. Results: The primary objective of this study was to assess the demographic details of the community pharmacists as well as the distribution of knowledge, Attitude, Practice on Pharmacovigilance, out of 2205 Community Pharmacist 1109 (50.3%) were male and 1016 (49.7%) were female. More than half of the respondents (54%) was familiar about the definition of pharmacovigilance. Out of 2205 respondents, 240 respondents thought that reporting adverse drug reaction is unnecessary. Among 2205 respondents, 445 respondents have not experienced ADR in their patients during their professional practice. Conclusions This study determined the Assessment of Knowledge, Attitude and practice of Pharmacovigilance among Community Pharmacist in India. According to this study, community pharmacists are good in attitude but they were not knowledgeable and not effective in practice.
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