Evaluación del efecto de la intervención farmacéutica en la mejora de la adherencia al tratamiento en pacientes con Diabetes Mellitus Tipo 2 del área de consulta externa del Hospital General Puyo

Abstract

The research aims to evaluate the effect of pharmacist intervention to improve adherence to treatment in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus outpatient area of the General Hospital Puyo mellitus. It has the theoretical underpinnings of the disease in areas such as: consequences, pharmaceutical and non - pharmaceutical treatment, patient adherence to drug treatment. The methodology is experimental study of randomized controlled clinical trial opened in group of 30 active patients for consultation during 2 014 called intervention group and 30 to the control group; with due consent survey of knowledge of the disease, counting tablets and Morisky's test applies - Battle Green and the beginning and end of the intervention; in the process a triptych of informati on was given to the outpatient as well as visits. Once applied the instruments, made the educational intervention through household and individual patients in the intervention group visits, the results are presented statistically with their proper interpre tation and analysis to arrive at the testing of the hypothesis by testing Mc Nemar , with the following results: Test Morisky's - Green = 0.002 which is less than 0.05; Test of Battle = 0.000 which is less than 0.05; Count Tablets = 0.021 which is less tha n 0.05 and Knowledge Disease = 0.001 which is less than 0.05. These results support the conclusion that was improved adherence to treatment in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus through health education. An improvement plan, which can be applied to all patients with diabetes, being feasible in implementation arises.