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Euro Gastroenterology 2019 & Clinical Pharmacy 2019 Archives of General Internal Medicine | ISSN: 2591-7951 | Volume 3
Page 26
March 25-26, 2019 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
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GASTROENTEROLOGY AND HEPATOLOGY
4th International Conference on
CLINICAL PHARMACY & PHARMACY PRACTICE
9th World Congress on
Joint Event on
OF EXCELLENCE
IN INTERNATIONAL
MEETINGS
YEARS
THE IMPACT OF PATIENT MEDICATION ADHERENCE ON HBA1C LEVEL
AMONG TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS PATIENTS
Ali Saleh Alkhoshaiban and Aiman A Shoiab
Qassim University Medical city, Saudi Arabia
Background: Pharmacist counselling has a positive effect on patient’s medication adherence and patient’s gly-
caemic control, therefore, on health outcome. There is a great interest to assess the impact of pharmacist coun-
selling on medication adherence and glycaemic control.
Objective: This study assessed the impact of pharmacist counselling and follow-up on medication adherence
and HbA1c Levels.
Methods: This interventional study used the longitudinal method to compare the diabetic patients’HbA1c levels
before (‘pre-intervention period’) and after the intervention (‘post-intervention period’). A total of 102 patients
have volunteered and met the inclusion criteria. HbA1c levels were extracted from patients’medical files before
applying pharmacist intervention and compared with HbA1c levels after applying pharmacist intervention. The
pharmacist followed up the patients once a month at the hospital and twice a month through phone calls for
six months. HbA1c is measured in this study from laboratory test results. HbA1c is classified into two categories
which are poor control and good control, in both baselines (pre) and at the end of the study (post). Good (HbA1c
≤ 6.5%) and poor (HbA1c > 6.5%). Data were analysed by the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS v20).
Results and Discussion: 73.5% of patients were male, where 81.4% of the patients who participated in this
study were aged 61– 70 years old. There were significant differences between HbA1c pre-test and post-test
which the P-value HbA1c recorded before the intervention has increased to 60% after the intervention program,
whereas, 60% of patients with poor control HbA1c had decreased after the intervention program to 40%. Con-
clusion: This study reflects the important role of pharmacist counselling on patient’s glycaemic control, whereas
patients who received pharmacist counselling exhibited a perfect rate of medication adherence and in turn lead
to successful glycaemic control.
Ali Saleh Alkhoshaiban et al., Arch Gen Intern Med 2019, Volume 3 | DOI: 10.4066/2591-7951-C1-023
Ali Saleh Alkhoshaiban has completed his PhD in 2018 from Universiti Tecknologi Mara (UiTM), Malaysia. He is a clinical
pharmacist at Qassim University Medical City and director of the pharmacy department. He has publications that have
been cited over many times with high index.
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