Drug utilization study in the department of psychiatry

Anil kumarYerragopu 1, *, Anusha V.L 1, Shaik Shafiya Begum 2 and Akki Rajesh 3

1 Department of Pharmacology, SIMS College of pharmacy, Guntur-1, India.
2 Department of Pharmacy Practice, ChebroluHanumaiah Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, A.P, India.
3 Department of Pharmaceutics, Hindu college of pharmacy, Guntur, India.
 
Research Article
International Journal of Science and Research Archive, 2023, 08(01), 740–753.
Article DOI: 10.30574/ijsra.2023.8.1.0119
Publication history: 
Received on 24 December 2022; revised on 06 February 2023; accepted on 09 February 2023
 
Abstract: 
Psychiatry disorders are creating its own place in morbidity these days. Various factors like cost of drugs, local paradigms, etc, plays a critical role for selecting the appropriate therapy for a particular patient because usually they are chronic therapy. Keeping this in mind, we conducted a study to delineate the various drugs used in psychiatric disorders, to find discrepancies. Drug utilization studies are essential for correct use of drug. Our study identifies the problems that arise from drug usage in health care delivery system and highlights the current approaches to the rational use of drugs. A total of 518 patients’ data were collected during the period and analyzed for WHO recommended prescribing and complementary indicators. Study shows low incidence of poly pharmacy which is good as poly pharmacy is common in psychiatry and also use of injections was very low. Study shows that prescribing from WHO List of Essential Medicine was not as good as it accounted for only 21.3%. There is scope for improvement in case of medicines prescribed by generic name as none were prescribed by generic name. The average cost per prescription in our study was only 9.41 Indian rupees per day which is affordable by the majority of the patients.
 
Keywords: 
Drug utilization; Rational use of drugs; Psychiatry drugs; Clinical Pharmacist role; Psychiatry
 
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