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Assessment Of Drug Compliance And Targeted Pharmacist Intervention In Acute Ischemic Stroke Patient
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VARSHITHA NAKKA, SUREKHA PUSAPATI, AJAY MANUKONDA, DR. S. KUMARAVELU, VARA PRASAD SAKA
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BACKGROUND: Stroke can be a devastating and distressing experience that leads to disability & death The statistics of stroke are alarming in the sense that creates a need for long term drug compliance to stroke medications; to improve health outcomes and secondary prevention of stroke.
AIM: The main aim of the study is to assess drug compliance, outline the factors responsible for noncompliance and to perform targeted interventions at patient level in acute ischemic stroke patients.
METHOD: After IEC approval informed consent was taken from the participants. Data was collected.The drug compliance was measured using structured interviews.Factors responsible for non compliance are isolated and appropriate interventions are performed to increase compliance and reassessment of compliance are made after 4 weeks.
RESULTS: From the obtained results, When initial assessment compliance was compared with reassessment compliance, the results significantly increased at P<<0.05 when done by chi-square test. When noncompliance factors are compared with initial assessment and reassessment, p values significantly increased at P<<0.05 when done by paired t-test using SPSS software.
CONCLUSION: Non-compliance to clinically prescribed regimen is the main reason for sub optimal clinical outcome. Interventions like patient education, follow-up interviews, reporting adverse effects to physicians, counselling the patient on necessity of medication compliance, opting for a low-cost alternative on discussion with care-giver are very beneficial in improving compliance which indicates that patient targeted care has an impact on the improvement of individual health outcomes.
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Stroke, Compliance, Non-compliance, Re-assessment, Targeted Intervention
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https://doi.org/10.31838/ijpr/2021.13.01.398
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