Evaluation and effect of patient counseling by Pharm D students in hospitals - a survey
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Abstract
Patient understanding about the illness is very important role in management .Counseling makes the patient understand his/her illness, lifestyle modifications in better way and enhance patient compliance. The objective of the study is to find out the impact of Pharm D students in patient counseling and analyzing the effect of counseling enhances the patient care services or not. In this method, a set of self-designed questionnaire was prepared to evaluate the knowledge of patients regarding their disease, medications and lifestyle and a prospective survey was carried out using the information’s gathered from Pharm D students in all pharmacy colleges in South India. The study provides the effect of counseling; counseling place, time, and counseling aids, language, disease conditions are collected and analyzed properly. Also patient response to the counseling was recorded. These collected data was subjected to proper statistical analysis and a total of 15 colleges with 72% female and 25% male Pharm D student’s response were collected. The significance of the study was to identify the effect of patient counseling at bedside, discharge and their follow-up.
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