Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting: Knowledge and Perception among General Public in Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia

Objectives: The current study aims to assess general public knowledge and perception toward Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) reporting systems in Eastern province, Saudi Arabia. Methods: A cross-sectional survey based study was conducted from 1st September 2019 to 31st October 2019 among the community in Eastern province, Saudi Arabia. A validated self-administered questionnaire were distributed among easily approachable 1500 participants through social media in which 1038 respondents were completely filled the survey form. Chi square test were used for the calculation of variance among the group. P-value less than and equal to 0.05 is considered statistically significant. Results: The response rate of survey was 69.20%. The mean age of the survey respondents were 30.5± 8.37years. Among all the respondents 335(32.27%) respondents were male and 703(67.72%) respondents were female from community of Eastern province, Saudi Arabia. Only, 7.61% of the respondents were familiar with the Saudi National Pharmacovigilance Centre (NPC) (p