Impact of Hospital Pharmacist Intervention on Medication Management in Dialysis Patients (IPhaDia)

Vichy Hospital Center

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Health Literacy Level; Kidney Disease, Chronic; Renal Dialysis

Treatments: Behavioral: Pharmacist intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06692231

CHV-2024-10

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if an intervention of a hospital pharmacist could help, dialysis patients managed his treatment. In a first time, the health literacy level will be assed.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

What is the impact of the clinical pharmacist intervention on the understanding level and management level of his treatment by the patient? Does the intervention of the pharmacist has an effect on the biologicals parameters of the patient? Researchers will compare a group with a pharmacist intervention VS a group without pharmacist intervention for dialysis patients.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient over 18 years of age
• On dialysis (peritoneal dialysis, hemodialysis) for at least 3 months
• Prescription for at least 5 daily medications
• Patient who has not received any pharmaceutical consultation from a hospital pharmacist as part of his or her treatment for chronic renal failure.

Exclusion criteria

• Patient does not speak and/or understand French
• Patient's cognitive state does not permit an interview
• Patient not autonomous in managing his or her daily medication (e.g.: patient in nursing home)
• Patient refusal

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Controle Arm

No Intervention group

Description:

Control arm: will have no specific intervention

Intervention Arm

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention arm: Patient will have an interview with a clinical pharmacist to explain the role of each medication. The pharmacist will also explain the best moment to take each medication.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Pharmacist intervention