NCT05337709

Pharmacist Provided Intervention (Education and Medication Review) in Osteoarthritis

Pharmacist Provided Intervention in Osteoarthritis: Community Pharmacies Based Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 154 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Monash University Malaysia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to initiate pharmacist intervention (educational and medication review) among osteoarthritis patients visiting community pharmacies.

Detailed description

Community pharmacists are one of the most accessible health care professionals for patient care in chronic diseases including osteoarthritis and can provide patient education, conduct medication review, and collaborate with the multidisciplinary pain management team, to improve treatment outcomes and quality of life. Studies have reported that pharmacist-provided intervention was beneficial as it increased patients' knowledge of osteoarthritis, reduced the rates of adverse events associated with analgesics, and improved self-perceived health and function. So this study aims to provide intervention through community pharmacists. Potential patients will be identified from community pharmacies and consent will be obtained from patients before enrolling them in the study. The study will be a cluster-randomized trial. Thus pharmacies will be randomized, either to control or treatment group. Patients in the treatment group will receive the pharmacist-initiated intervention while in the control group will receive usual care. The intervention will be an education on osteoarthritis, its management, and self-care activities followed by a medication review. Pharmacists assess patients' knowledge of medication indication, identify adverse effects or drug-related problems, and counsel patients on proper medication use. Education intervention will be provided through face-to-face communication at the time of enrollment and a leaflet will be provided. The patient will receive a phone call and will be able to view the video in the succeeding weeks to enforce the intervention. Outcome measures will be assessed at baseline, three months, and six months from enrolment in both treatment and control groups.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis
• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Education intervention and medication review	Education on osteoarthritis and pain management will be provided to the patients by face-to-face communication at the first meeting, aided with a leaflet, then patients will get the follow-up calls and a video will be shown to enforce the intervention. Medication review includes the assessment of patients' knowledge on the indication, identification of any drug-related problem, and counseling on the proper use of medication.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-01
• Primary completion: 2022-12-01
• Completion: 2022-12-01
• First posted: 2022-04-20
• Last updated: 2022-08-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Nepal