Fahad Saleem|Mohamed Azmi Hassali|Asrul Akmal Shafie|N. Haq|Maryam Farooqui|Hisham Aljadhay|Fiaz Ahmad
Pharmacist intervention in improving hypertension?related knowledge, treatment medication adherence and health?related quality of life: a non?clinical randomized controlled trial
Universiti Sains Malaysia|Universiti Sains Malaysia|Universiti Sains Malaysia|Universiti Sains Malaysia|Universiti Teknologi MARA|King Saud University|Universiti Sains Malaysia
study evaluated whether pharmaceutical care intervention result better understanding hypertension increase medication adherence antihypertensive therapy improve overall healthrelated quality lifea nonclinical randomized control trial conducted whereby participants received educational intervention hospital pharmacists hypertension knowledge medication adherence healthrelated quality life measured means selfadministered questionnaires descriptive statistics used describe demographic disease characteristics patients inferential statistics used inter intragroup comparisons spss 17 used data analysisthree hundred eightyfive hypertensive patients randomly assigned 192 control group 193 intervention group study significant differences observed either group age gender income locality education occupation duration disease however significant increase participants levels knowledge hypertension medication adherence among interventional group completing intervention significantly lower systolic diastolic blood pressure levels also observed among interventional group completion intervention interventional group however reported decreased yet significant healthrelated quality life end interventional programmepharmacist intervention significantly increase diseaserelated knowledge blood pressure control medication adherence patients hypertension however research needed address decreased healthrelated quality life completion study