Awareness among Patients Regarding Adverse Drug Reaction upon taking Analgesics

Abstract

Analgesics are used by people very frequently. Analgesics are mostly used as pain killer. Doctors suggest various type of analgesics. The objective of this study was to determine the knowledge and awareness of patients regarding adverse drug reaction with analgesics. The present study was designed and conducted to establish a basic understanding on the level of gap of knowledge and awareness of the patients about the adverse drug reaction and side effect of analgesics. 145 were included in this study. Men and women both were participated in this study. The age of the respondents were between thirty and sixty and above. No patient has any medical or health science related background. They were interviewed with a questionnaire from this study we see that most of the people are unaware and have very poor knowledge about the adverse drug reaction and side effect of the drug. There were also self-medication tendency among some of the patients.Even most of the doctors discuss about the possible side effects and other indication of the drug but the patient most of the time do not follow them properly. It is very important to raise awareness among the people regarding adverse drug reaction and side effect of the medication.According to the Bangladesh perspective majority of the population do not know about the ADR and side effects. We need to take adequate stepsto raise awareness among the population about adverse drug reaction and their management.