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

Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2018

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

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 (p􀀀0.05) at baseline and for the intervention group, a highly signicant improvement (p<0.001) was observed for all domains in nal

follow–up. This study showed a signicant improvement in the patient’s QOL towards HTN following pharmacist mediated counselling.