PMID: 16623018Apr 21, 2006Paper

Effect of diabetes drug counseling by pharmacist, diabetic disease booklet and special medication containers on glycemic control of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand = Chotmaihet Thangphaet
Suchat SuppapitipornSaowapa Onsanit

Abstract

type 2 diabetes mellitus continues to increase in prevalence worldwide. Many factors have been cited as contributing to compliance, such as family and social support, education, number of tablets per dose, frequency of administration and health care provider communication. Toward these goals, the present study was developed to measure the effect offactors on glycemic control such as diabetes education by pharmacists, a diabetes disease booklet and special medication containers. A total of 360 volunteers with type 2 DM patients were recruited, participants were simple randomized to control 180 and intervention 180 patients. Which intervention categorized to 4 groups; all intervention groups received diabetes drug counseling by a pharmacist, one group received plus a diabetes booklet, one received plus special medical containers and the last group received all of them. The interventions were done at the 1st time of visit. Both the control and intervention groups were monitored for fasting plasma glucose and HbA1c at 0, 3, 6 months and glycemic level in both groups was compared. After 3 months, mean fasting plasma glucose and HbA1c decreased wiih the intervention group vs. control group (152.36 +/- 39.73 to 131.52 +/- 35.22 mg%) a...Continue Reading

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