Assessment of knowledge and practice of community pharmacy personnel on diabetes mellitus management in Kathmandu district: a cross sectional descriptive study

Shrestha, M.; Maharjan, Ramila; Prajapati, A.; Ghimire, Saruna; Shrestha, Naveen; Banstola, Ashik

doi:10.1186/s40200-015-0205-7

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“…The present study also showed that pharmacists during their education about insulin focused mainly on site and time of injecting insulin. This came in tune with similar finding reported in Nepal, where 51% of the pharmacists always educated the diabetic patients about the time of administration of their insulin 21 . Unfortunately, the current study showed that despite the involved pharmacists educate their patients about the time of using insulin, they failed to do so in appropriate manner, where most of them failed to specify the correct time for injecting regular insulin 30min before meal 15 .…”

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confidence: 89%

“…This malpractice of providing inadequate pharmaceutical care may be mainly attributed to the poor knowledge of the community pharmacists rather than lack of sufficient time, since the information provided by all pharmacists in all pharmacies without regard to number of patients and staff is poor. Similar finding was reported in Nepal, where only 1.9% of pharmacists reported to have good knowledge about diabetes and its treatment 21 .…”

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confidence: 86%

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Assessment of Pharmacist's Role in Counselling and Educating Diabetic Patients About Insulin Therapy

Mikhael¹,

Hassali²,

Hussain³

et al. 2018

Int Res J Pharm

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Background: Insulin therapy is the cornerstone treatment for diabetic patients. Insulin administration errors are common and may pose a significant risk to the life of the patient. Pharmacists can play an important role in educating and counseling diabetic patients about the proper use of insulin to prevent such errors. Objective: to evaluate the role of community pharmacists in educating diabetic patients about the proper use of insulin. Setting: This study was conducted on a convenient sample of 54 pharmacies in Baghdad, Iraq during December 2017. Methods: This study was a cross sectional conducted based on simulated patient method. A scenario including a prescription for lente and regular insulin was used in assessment pharmacist counseling role. Main outcome measure: assessment of pharmacists' counseling and educating role about insulin therapy by comparing the given information to simulated patient with standard information based on the expert recommendations for best practice in insulin injection technique. Results: This study showed that 16.7% of the community pharmacists just dispense insulin and refer the patient to the physician for counseling and education. All pharmacists who counsel and educate the simulated patient about insulin failed to do so properly. The pharmacists who educate the simulated patient about insulin usually focus on the time of and site of injecting insulin. Conclusion: Community pharmacists lack the adequate knowledge to educate and counsel diabetic patients about their insulin therapy.

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confidence: 89%

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Assessment of Pharmacist's Role in Counselling and Educating Diabetic Patients About Insulin Therapy

Mikhael¹,

Hassali²,

Hussain³

et al. 2018

Int Res J Pharm

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“…Butt et al 2009). In one such study, it was made known that prolonged use of ARV drugs generally could increase the incidence of DM in these patients (Shrestha M et al 2015). The implication is that, patients should be selected in the choices of HAART regimen they would be treated with.…”

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confidence: 99%

Knowledge of Diabetes mellitus-HIV Co-Infection Among Health Care Workers in Primary and Secondary Health Facilities in Osun State, South West Nigeria

Farinloye¹,

Adeleke²,

Adebimpe³

et al. 2016

Sierra Leone j. biomed. res.

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Advent of drug combinations in Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) has been a major achievement in the management of HIV/AIDS. However, some of the drugs involved e.g. protease inhibitors have as side effects metabolic disorders like diabetes mellitus DM and dyslipidemia due to affectation of the pancreas and other organs.A cross-sectional study to determine the knowledge of health care workers on DM, HIV and how some of the drugs used in treating HIV infection secondarily cause metabolic disease like DM. Self-administered, pre-tested questionnaires were distributed to 279 health workers from the primary and secondary health care facilities in Osun state attending state wide workshops on GDM organized by Strategy for Improving Diabetes Care in Nigeria (SIDCAIN) team.Two thirds (66.2%) of the respondents had good knowledge on DM, while about three quarters (76.3%) had good knowledge on HIV. Only about a third (32.4%) of all respondents had good knowledge on effects of drugs management of HIV on DM. Health care providers have poor knowledge of HAART induced DM. Regular update workshops are therefore recommended for such awareness.

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“…The good level was only observed at 13.16%. A lower proportion was found in Nepal [11]. A study conducted in Qatar had also shown a low to moderate level of knowledge among a large proportion of pharmacists [12].…”

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Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (K.A.P) of Pharmacy Pharmacists of the Department of Dakar in the Care of Diabetics

Mané¹,

Diédhiou²,

Sow³

et al. 2019

JDM

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Aim: To evaluate the attitude practice and knowledge of pharmacists in the management of diabetes in the department of Dakar. Methodology: Cross-sectional study, conducted from 01 March to 30 September 2017 including all pharmacists in the Dakar region who agreed to participate in the survey. Data was collected through a pre-established questionnaire. Results: A total of 144 pharmacists were included in the study, representing a participation rate of 87.58%. The average age was 33.90 years, with a sex ratio of 1.69. Pharmacists were single in 50.88% of cases, and a minimum experience of 5 years was found in 64.03% of cases. Pharmacist assistants accounted for 57.9% of our study population. The assessment of knowledge based on 16 items shows an average score of 9.02. The level of knowledge was low to insufficient in 37.21% of cases, average in (50%) half of cases and good for (13.16%). Less than half (34.21%) of pharmacists had received training and the average date of last training was 33.76 ± 24.6 months. Training was provided by medical representatives and academics in 66.66% and 26.67% respectively. The most felt positive feelings were respectively the need for help, the compassion in respectively 98.42%, 42.11%. Feelings felt and simultaneously cited were: need for help and compassion in more than 40% of respondents. Only 29% of pharmacists did not have a lot of difficulty with patient questions and the only reason was the lack of awareness (84.68%) of patients about their disease. Screening for diabetes by capillary blood glucose was performed by 57% of pharmacists. Dietary advice (76.15%) and referral to the hospital (94.41%) were the most common practices in case of blood sugar disruption. The dialogue with patients was impossible in 22.81% of pharmacists and the main reasons given were lack of time (53.

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Assessment of knowledge and practice of community pharmacy personnel on diabetes mellitus management in Kathmandu district: a cross sectional descriptive study

Cited by 18 publications

References 12 publications

Assessment of Pharmacist's Role in Counselling and Educating Diabetic Patients About Insulin Therapy

Assessment of Pharmacist's Role in Counselling and Educating Diabetic Patients About Insulin Therapy

Knowledge of Diabetes mellitus-HIV Co-Infection Among Health Care Workers in Primary and Secondary Health Facilities in Osun State, South West Nigeria

Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices (K.A.P) of Pharmacy Pharmacists of the Department of Dakar in the Care of Diabetics

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