The goal of this interventional study was to assess the impact of medication therapy management on treatment outcomes and medication adherence among adult patients comorbid with diabetes mellitus and hypertension at outpatient clinics in Southwest Ethiopia. The patients attending hospitals assigned to interventional group received medication therapy management services in addition to usual care.
This study aimed to assess the impact of medication therapy management intervention on treatment outcomes and medication adherence among patients comorbid with diabetes mellitus and hypertension at outpatient clinics in Southwest Ethiopia. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted at outpatient clinics of public hospitals in Southwest Ethiopia from March to December, 2022. Hospitals were randomly assigned to either the interventional or the control group. The patients attending hospitals assigned to interventional group received medication therapy management services in addition to usual care and those attended hospital assigned to control group received the usual care only. A systematic random sampling technique was used to select the study participants from each hospital. The differences in proportion between the groups was determined using the Pearson chi-square. The independent sample t-test was be done to compare means between groups and paired t-test was used to compare means in between intervention and controlled group. The p-value of \< 0.05 was used as a cut-off point to declare statistical significance.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Enrollment
386
The medication therapy management intervention was delivered via the five (5) core components which include medication therapy review, personal medication record, medication-related action plan, intervention, and documentation and follow-up. The interventions was also given via educating patients about diabetes, hypertension, complications of diabetes and hypertension, impact of having diabetes and hypertension, antidiabetes and antihypertensive medications, goals of therapy for diabetes and hypertension, health promoting behaviours (healthy diet, regular exercise, salt reduction, \& smoking cessation), drug adherence, and self-monitoring of the diseases.
Mattu Univesity
Addis Ababa, Mettu, Ethiopia
Change in percentage of of glycemic control, blood pressure control and medication adherence among adult patients comorbid with diabetes mellitus and hypertension at outpatient clinics in Southwest Ethiopia
The proportion of patients who achieved good glycemic control changed from 15.5% to 43.3% from baseline to the end of the study in the intervention group. The current study also observed that the percentage of intervention group participants at the goal increased from 36.6% to 60.3% from baseline to 6-month.The adherence rate in the intervention group increased by 50% while remaining fairly constant in the control group.
Time frame: It was a 6 months study period
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