A Comparative Study of an Integrated Pharmaceutical Care Plan and a Routine Care in Bronchial Asthma

Ain Shams University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bronchial Asthma

Treatments: Other: Pharmacist- Intervention; Other: Routine Care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02046759

Asthma-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study is to compare the effect of asthma care by clinical pharmacist intervention versus routine care on asthma control.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patient with clinical diagnosis of bronchial asthma
• responsible for administering their own asthma medications.

Exclusion criteria

• patients who were not responsible for administering their own asthma medications.
• patients with cognitive defects, other pulmonary disease e.g. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), experiencing illness with asthma-like symptoms e.g. Congestive Heart Failure, evidence of fixed airway obstruction
• patients unavailable for 2-month follow-up.
• patients who did not provide written informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Pharmacist-Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Pharmacist- Intervention

Routine Care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: Routine Care