Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2018

IMPACT OF PHARMACIST INTERVENTION IN IMPROVING HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS

Krishnaveni Kandasamy, Shanmuga Sundaram Rajagopal, Kameswaran Ramalingam, Karthickeyan Krishnan

Abstract :

 The study was intended to evaluate the effectiveness of patient counselling in improving the quality of life (QOL) of

hypertensive patients in a rural community. The hypertensive patients were randomized into control and intervention
group, and both the groups were interviewed using WHO QOL–BREF questionnaires, screened BP for a period of nine months, respectively, at
baseline and each follow–up after post counseling section to the intervention group. Data analysis was done by SPSS 16.1. Among 100
hypertensive patients, 40% were males and 60% were females. The QOL score for each domain of both intervention and control groups were
almost poor (pō€€€0.05) at baseline and for the intervention group, a highly signiļ€cant improvement (p<0.001) was observed for all domains in ļ€nal
follow–up. This study showed a signiļ€cant improvement in the patientā€™s QOL towards HTN following pharmacist mediated counselling.

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Krishnaveni Kandasamy, Shanmuga Sundaram Rajagopal, Kameswaran Ramalingam, Karthickeyan Krishnan, IMPACT OF PHARMACIST INTERVENTION IN IMPROVING HEALTH RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-5 | May-2018


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