Patient Counselling for Improving Medication Adherence and Health Care in Pediatrics- An Educational Intervention Study

Research Article | Open Access

Volume 2021 - 1 | Article ID 199 | http://dx.doi.org/10.51521/IRJCPT.2021.1209

Patient Counselling for Improving Medication Adherence and Health Care in Pediatrics- An Educational Intervention Study

Academic Editor: John Bose

Received 2021-05-24
Revised 2021-06-17
Accepted 2021-07-08
Published 2021-08-20

M. Keerthana^1*, N. Ramu¹, N. Akhila², A. Pavithra², R.E Ugandar³

^1,2Pharm. D, Santhiram College of Pharmacy, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India.

³Department of Pharmacy practice, Santhiram College of Pharmacy, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Corresponding Author: M. Keerthana, Santhiram College of Pharmacy, Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, keerthanamallu1245@gmail.com

Citation: M. Keerthana, N. Ramu, N. Akhila, A. Pavithra, R.E. Ugandar (2021). Patient Counselling for Improving Medication Adherence and Health Care in Pediatrics: An Educational Intervention Study. Int Res J Clin Stud Pharm Trends, 1(2);1-4.

Copyright: © 2021, M. Keerthana, N. Ramu, N. Akhila, A. Pavithra, R.E. Ugandar (2021). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

ABSTRACT:

Poor medication adherence is common in children but there is uncertainty about the best way to enhance medication adherence in this group. Medication compliance is critical for all aspects of Pediatrics, it must be addressed for both acute and chronic uses of medications. Poor compliance places children at risk for problems such as continued disease, complicates the Physician-Patient relationship and prevent accurate assessment of the quality of health care provided. It is an interventional study which includes the paediatric patients in paediatric department of Santhiram medical college and general hospital to improve the medication adherence and health care in paediatric patients. Among 150 pediatric patients, 48 were adhere and 102 were non adhere towards medication. In these 102 patients we assessed for factors affecting medication adherence, based upon the factors counselling and tips were given to their care givers. Before and after counselling the adherence level was measured by using Medication adherence questionnaire. Before counselling 31.9% children were adhere, 68% children were non adhered, 94.8 % children were adhere after counselling, 5.2% children were non adhere. adherence level was improved up to 95% in study population was observed in the study. This study concluded that medication non adherence in paediatrics occurs for a variety of reasons and multiple factors and there are many solutions to enhance medication adherence in paediatric population which includes individualized counselling, regimens and strategies to overcome factors affecting medication adherence. Mainly pharmacist can help to address barriers for adherence and suggest ways to reduce them and counselling leads to improve in adherence and health care in paediatrics.

KEYWORDS:

Counselling, Factors, Health care, Medication adherence, Pediatrics.