Bridging the pharmacogenomics gap: a survey of healthcare workers in South-Western Nigeria.

This study assessed the knowledge, attitude, and perception of pharmacogenomics among healthcare workers in Southwest Nigeria. A structured, questionnaire-based survey was administered to 229 healthcare workers in Southwestern Nigeria using a stratified sampling approach. Descriptive and inferential statistics using the Kruskal-Wallis or Chi-Square/Fisher's Exact test were performed with SPSS v. 29 at a 5% significance level. Good general knowledge was displayed by half of the participants (123, 53.7%), but specific knowledge declined significantly. The majority (200, 87.3%) expressed interest in receiving further education, with healthcare practitioners with <5 years' experience expressing higher optimism for getting involved in pharmacogenetic testing (p = 0.003) and expressing greater ability to identify sources of information on pharmacogenomics (p = 0.02). This suggests a significant gap between current educational provisions and the requisite understanding needed to implement pharmacogenomics effectively in the Nigerian healthcare system.