Kandimalla Chaitanya|Chandra Jahnavi|Yerragundla Kanthi Kiran|ApolloJames|T Raman Ashok Kumar|T. Sivakumar
A Case Report on Neonatal Bartter Syndrome and It’s Effective Management-Clinical Pharmacist Perspective
introduction diabetes mellitus chronic disease occurs pancreas longer able make insulin body cannot make good use insulin producesit controlled using oral hypoglycaemic agents andor insulin lifestyle modificationsthis study examines role pictograms educating diabetic patients proper medication use lifestyle modificationsit open label observational comparative studyobjectives educate diabetic patients proper medication use lifestyle modifications using pictogramsto identify whether comprehension pictogram differs based gender age group level education compliance medications diabetic patients develop leaflet containing pictograms convey information lifestyle modifications medication use diabetic patientsmethod prospectiveobservational comparative study 6 months duration undertaken 100 participants phase1 survey n100 select best understood pictograms 24 pictograms selectedthis set carried phase2 oneonone interview n100 guessability translucency componentsguessability study carried 50 diabetic patients response pictograms recorded 3 point likert scalemodifications made pictograms based difficulties faced patients understanding pictogramsthese modified pictograms used translucency study result obtained using 5 point likert scalewe use student ttest chisquare test using spss 19 analyze dataresults results study show pictograms generally well understood diabetic patients intended meaning pictograms explained accompanied textthe statistically significant p values obtained levels education guessability 0040 translucency 0050the overall guessability pictograms included 696 overall translucency 909conclusion result study suggests pictograms play vital role educating patients used effective counselling aid lowliteracy group people