DOI: 10.36347/sajp.2023.v12i12.009

Pages: 315-321

Background: The healthcare professionals who are closest to patients receiving medication include medical doctors, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists. To develop new strategies to lower drug drug interactions (DDIs), it is crucial to comprehend the extent to which these providers can recognize an interaction and identify a suitable management strategy. The scant information that is currently available suggests that there is little DDIs understanding of medical doctors, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists. Aim of the study: It's critical to evaluate healthcare providers' understanding of drug-drug interactions and common sources of information on these interactions in order to increase patient medication safety. Method: A cross-sectional study design will be applied. More than twenty drug combinations will be given to participants, and they must categorize them as "no interaction," "may be used together with monitoring," "contraindication," or "not sure." The study will be carried out in the King Hussein Medical Center at the Royal Medical Services for two months after obtaining the ethical approval. The target population will be all physicians, nurses, and pharmacists working at KHMC whereas the sample will be all physicians, nurses, and pharmacists who agree to participate in the study and provide a consent form. Utilizing SPSS for Windows version 24 statistical software, data will be analyzed. Means will be used to describe continuous variables in descriptive analysis, whereas frequency distributions (such as percentages) will be used to describe categorical variables. For categorical variables, Fisher's exact test will be applied, and for continuous variables, Student's t-test will be employed. To describe the results of possible drug/drug interaction questions, the mean will be computed. Results: The study was done by enrolling 350 healthcare professionals among whom 60 were Physician, 40 Pharmacist, 200 Nurses and 50 allied healthcare providers. ..........