The ANM is the first initiative that puts advanced pharmaceutical care into practice in Andalusia (Spain). The aim of this is study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention Assistance to New Medicines (ANM) in the improvement of adherence to treatment in community pharmacies.
Design: parallel cluster pragmatic randomized controlled trial. The study includes patients users of a community pharmacies, who meet the following inclusion criteria: patient who starts treatment of any of the following pathologies: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Arterial Hypertension or Diabetes Mellitus in Andalusia (Spain). In order to avoid possible contamination between patients assigned to the control and intervention group, randomization will be carried out at the pharmacy level; preventing the pharmacist from applying part of the intervention to the control group. Interventions: patients randomized: (i) current practice; or (ii) ANM intervention thru a pharmacist delivered support for a newly prescribed medicine.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
500
Andalusian School of Public Health & CIBER en Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP).
Granada, Spain
RECRUITINGAdherence to treatment
adherence to treatment may be defined as the extent to which the patient's history of therapeutic drug-taking coincides with the prescribed treatment.
Time frame: Ten weeks
Adherence to treatment
adherence to treatment may be defined as the extent to which the patient's history of therapeutic drug-taking coincides with the prescribed treatment.
Time frame: Six months
Satisfaction with the service
The degree to which the individual regards the health care service or product or the manner in which it is delivered by the provider as useful, effective, or beneficial. The satisfaction with the service, will be collected thru a likert question (1 not satisfied, 10 very satisfied).
Time frame: Ten weeks and six months
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