Evaluation of the Effectiveness of a Continuing Education Program in Community Pharmacies

Universidad de Antioquia

Status: Completed

Conditions: Controlled Drug Dependence

Treatments: Other: Staff pharmacy whith intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03388567

0017102017MC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Preventable failures in the drug chain are related to Drugs Problems Related Use and are associated with medication errors (prescription, dispensing, administration or use by the patient or caregiver), including failures In the Medication Supply System (availability and quality).

The controlled drugs are those that contain substances regulated by international conventions on drug control. They are important in various fields of medicine, such as pain management, obstetric emergencies, mental disorders such as the treatment of substance dependence, psychiatry and neurology. It has been defined as abuse of drugs the improper use of these for non-medical purposes, and associated with the use without medical prescription, which can produce addiction or psychic or physical dependence.

Full description

Experimental study with random assignment of the staff pharmacist of Pharmacies. The staff pharmacists admitted will be followed for 12 months (1 year). The study will make it possible to determine the effect of the continuing education program accompanied by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Enrollment: 360 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Pharmacy staff working in Pharmacy or Drugstore, located geographically in the city of Medellín and in the Metropolitan Area
2. That the owner works in the establishment

Inclusion Exclusion:

1. Pharmacy staff who do not agree to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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360 participants in 2 patient groups

Staff pharmacy whith intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Staff pharmacy who will receive continuous education through technology and communication tools, as well as accompaniment and advice from a pharmaceutical chemist

Treatment:

Other: Staff pharmacy whith intervention

Staff pharmacy without intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

Staff pharmacy who will receive only pharmacy information