Sonia C, George (2013) Impact of Pharmacist Intervention on Health Promotion Activities in Asthmatic Patients. Masters thesis, Ultra College of Pharmacy, Madurai.
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Abstract
Asthma is a highly variable disease where the pattern, frequency and intensity of symptoms may vary within an individual over a period of time and may also vary among individuals in duration and severity. While there is no cure for asthma, these changing characteristics make the management of the disease a challenge for both the health care professional and patient. Given the highly variable nature of the disease, it is important that patients have a good understanding of the disease process, are able to recognize worsening asthma symptoms, and are able to appropriately use and correctly administer the asthma medications.This study showed that improved patient knowledge on its own improve morbidity and mortality. Enabling patients to identify problems by providing the necessary skills, with the assistance of the health care team may revolutionize the world of asthma. This study confirmed that knowledge of asthma improved asthma control and asthma quality of life. A good correlation was found between knowledge and asthma quality of life. This study also addresses the issue of asthma management in the Indian rural setting. In rural area, asthma management practices have been shown to be poorer and asthma mortality rates considerably higher than those of metropolitan areas. There are a limited number of accesses to health care services and shortages in specialist services are increasing the asthma. The chronic shortage of medical practitioner's results in extremely long waiting times, and often patients fail to approach health care practitioners due to difficulty of access. Therefore, it becomes paramount that people with asthma in rural areas become involved in self-management of their asthma and that the communitybased health care providers be more proactive in facilitating these self-management behaviors.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Pharmacist Intervention ; Health Promotion ; Asthmatic Patients. |
| Subjects: | PHARMACY > Pharmacy Practice |
| Depositing User: | Ravindran C |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2017 05:56 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2018 17:20 |
| URI: | http://repository-tnmgrmu.ac.in/id/eprint/2319 |
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