Knowledge and perception of general public about adverse drug reaction reporting in Puncak Alam, Malaysia / Madihah Rosli

Obiective: Patient reporting to MADRAC for reporting adverse drug reaction in Malaysia is still new. As patients' reports is important, it is significant to include them in spontaneous reporting system. As first step, we would like to investigate the publics' awareness of MADRAC and ADR reporting system. Method: A cross­ sectional study was conducted to population of Puncak Alam City and they were selected using the convenience random sampling method. Data was analyzed using SPSS for windows version 17.0. Data will be describes using frequencies and percentages. Results: A total of 200 questionnaires were collected. Majority of respondents reported taking medicine (90.0%, (n=l80). 47 of respondents who had experienced adverse drug reaction,(14.9%, (n=7) of respondents had reported to the MADRAC. (28.5%, (n=57) aware existence of MADRAC. Conclusion: The result of this study demonstrates publics have poor knowledge and awareness about the existence of MADRAC. Low reporting of ADRs among public and majority of the respondents do not know the existence ofMADRAC to submit their ADRs' report.