Background: The need for rational use of medicines aims at prescribing medications to patients with doses for a period of time that is adequate and appropriately meets their clinical and individual requirements without financially burdening both the patient and community.
Aims and Objectives: The aims and objectives of the study are to assess knowledge, attitude, and practice of rational use of medicines.
Materials and Methods: After obtaining ethical committee clearance, this cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study was conducted among junior residents of KR hospital, a tertiary care hospital attached to MMC&RI, Mysore. A self-developed, pre-validated, semi-structured questionnaire was used. It was designed in such a manner to obtain information about the knowledge, attitude, and practice of rational use of medicine.
Results: The majority of the respondents were aware about parts of prescription (87%), though 61% of respondents were aware of p-drug, only 22% of them were aware of Safety, Tolerability, Efficacy, Price criteria for selection of p-drug, many were not aware about the advantages of using p-drug (71%). 10% never consider the cost of drugs before prescribing, only
Key words: Knowledge; Attitude; Practice; Rational Use of Medicine
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