Title:Determining Effective Diabetic Care; A Multicentre - Longitudinal Interventional Study
Volume: 22
Issue: 42
Author(s): Syed Wasif Gillani
Affiliation:
Keywords:
Diabetes, Metabolic syndrome, Telemonitoring, patient counseling, self-care practices.
Abstract: Background: Prevalence of chronic diseases are on the rise with majority occurring in developing
countries where the projected death caused by chronic diseases will reach 50 million by the year 2020.
Objective: The aim of the study is to evaluate and compare the outcomes of wireless mobile device (Telemonitoring)
with Pharmacist intervention and usual care on glycemic control and clinical outcomes.
Method: This study is a six-month parallel groups interventional longitudinal multi-center study with a control
arm. The study participants consist of patient diagnosed with type 2 diabetes mellitus and attending the outpatient
department (OPD) for diabetic treatment. The study protocol is approved from ministry of health Malaysia and
clinical research committee (CRC). Data analysis was made using IBM SPSS Statistics, version 22 (Armok, NY).
Results: A total of 150 participants were selected to enroll in this study. Initial baseline comparison showed ‘No
significant difference’ between the two intervention arms and control group. Findings showed that baseline
dataset have no significant change among all three-arms. However last week of study showed significant
(p<0.001) improvement among pharmacist intervention arm as compared to telemonitoring and control arm.
Glycemic control seems well tolerated and managed among pharmacist intervention arm as compared to telemonitoring
and control arm (p<0.001). The study findings also showed reduction of mean 2.72 % (HbA1c) as compare
to baseline in six months. The proportion of participants experiencing hypoglycemic/hyperglycemic events
was significantly lower in the pharmacist intervention group compared to telemonitoring and control arm (odds
ratio: 2.1381; 95% CI: 3.0267-1.6059, p<0.001).
Conclusion: The Pharmacist educational focus-home care program improves the patient knowledge, self-care
practices and also significantly reduce the adverse events over study duration.