Adverse drug reaction (ADR) monitoring activity is in infancy in India. This study was conducted to determine the level of awareness of Health Care Professionals (HCP) about ADR reporting and extent of their involvement in pharmacovigilance activities. A questionnaire containing 19 questions was distributed to the teaching faculties, physicians, nurses and students of the study setting. The response rate of faculties, physicians, nurses and students for the questionnaire in phase-I were found to be 66.67, 40, 66.67 and 73.33 percent respectively. But the response rates were remarkably increased in the phase-II when compared with phase-I study viz 100 percent from faculties and students, 93.33 percent from physicians and 86.67 from nurses. Almost all the participants said that ADR monitoring was done in their institution. Majority of the participants said that ADR should be reported if it causes both inconvenience and death to the patients. In our study, Physician (93%) know the objectives of ADRs monitoring very well in phase-II, when compared with phase –I study (75%) which is followed by faculties (83), nurses (77%) and students (73%). Spontaneous reporting of ADRs denoted by all faculties, 93 percent physician, 80 percent students and 77 percent nurses in phase II study. All participants in the phase-II survey know any one method to monitor ADRs but in phase-I, 10 percent nurses and 9 percent students do not know about any one method of monitoring ADRs. Lack of knowledge about ADR reporting center is the mainstay in under-reporting or nonreporting of observed ADRs noted by only 6.67 percent of faculties, 19.23 percent nurses and 10 percent students. The reasons for underreporting was very much reduced in phase-II than in phase-I.
