Open AccessA cross sectional study of patients knowledge and attitude towards the drug-drug interactions in Coimbatore district India
Author(s) -
Arumugam Madeswaran,
M Abhijath,
R B Achsah,
Alka Tripathi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of advances in scientific research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2395-3616
DOI - 10.7439/ijasr.v1i2.1797
Subject(s) - drug , medicine , pharmacology , family medicine
The current objective of this study was to assess the patients knowledge and attitudes toward the drug-drug interactions, a survey instrument included questions about the patients demographic information, familiarity with drug-drug interactions, usage of other system of medicines and the patients comfort level when discussing drug-drug interactions.76% believed that drugs wont produce any interactions with other drugs. 58% of participants indicated that they were taken both allopathic and other system of medicines without the notification of physician. 64% of the respondents were stated that they were not able to communicate with the physician properly. The result of the current study reveals that the patients not having enough knowledge about drug-drug interactions and further indicates that the communication issue is a major factor for the drug-drug interactions. Hence the remedy suggested for reducing the drug-drug interactions are to enhance the time of counseling, and providing seminars, awareness, and programs regarding the need of effective communication and drug-drug interactions information to the overall population.