Management of Acute Uncomplicated UTIs in Adults by Community Pharmacists ([UTI])

University of Ibadan

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Urinary Tract Infections; Urinary Tract Infection Lower Acute

Treatments: Other: Educational training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05399797

taofiqclinical

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is to be conducted in community pharmacies. It involves the use of trained mystery patients to evaluate community pharmacists at baseline and post intervention. The pharmacists will be divided into control and intervention groups using computer generated codes. Those in the intervention group will receive an online training by clinical pharmacists. The training will employ the use of didactic teaching and the use of case studies and simulations covering the diagnosis and management of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections in adults. Post intervention, mystery patients will revisit the community pharmacists in the control and intervention groups for re-assessment.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The superintendent pharmacist, or the pharmacist manager or any other post National Youth Service Corps pharmacist

Exclusion criteria

• Interns, and pharmacists undergoing the mandatory National Youth Service Corps program.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Pharmacists in the intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

The pharmacist will be given an online educational training on management of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections

Treatment:

Other: Educational training

Pharmacists in the control group

No Intervention group

Description:

pharmacists in this group will not be trained, until after the completion of the study.