Clinical Pharmacist-led Discharge Education Service in Acute Coronary Syndrome

Marmara University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Coronary Syndrome

Treatments: Behavioral: Discharge Education Program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05153707

MARCPD-0001

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the impact of clinical pharmacist-led discharge education service in patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Full description

This prospective, randomized controlled study was conducted in patients with acute coronary syndrome in an cardiology service of tertiary training and research hospital. The clinical pharmacist, within the scope of the discharge education services, provided medication reconciliation, medication review, individually prepared patient medicine (pill) card, patient education (based on Health Belief Model by using written material and video, and verbally [by using Teach back method especially for patients with low health literacy]) and counseling (using behavior change techniques based on The Capability, Opportunity, and Motivation Behavior model). The control group received standard care.

Enrollment: 177 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients admitted to the cardiology department due to acute coronary syndrome
• Older than 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who transferred to another ward
• Patients with active malignancy
• Patients with alzheimer and/or dementia diagnosis
• Patient with >%80 visual loss or deaf muteness reported at medical record

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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177 participants in 2 patient groups

Clinical Pharmacist-led discharge education program

Experimental group

Description:

Clinical pharmacist-led services

Treatment:

Behavioral: Discharge Education Program

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

Usual care