Role of Pharmacist in Prevention and Management of Diabetics

Abstract

In the last three decades role of pharmacist has changed dramatically. Presently, the pharmacists are becoming more patient oriented than product oriented. Patient counseling by pharmacist deals with providing information to the patients regarding the diseases, medications and lifestyle modifications. In diabetes, self management and patient adherence to the prescribed medication and lifestyle modifications is very essential and pharmacist can play an important role in counseling. A study was carried out to assess the influence of pharmacist provided patient counseling on patients' perception about quality of life in type 2 diabetes. 70 type-2 diabetes mellitus patients (48 males and 22 female) were enrolled and randomized into test and control groups. Mean capillary blood glucose levels were decreased in test group where as non-significant increase of capillary blood glucose levels was observed in the control group patients. Pharmacist provided patient counseling might be considered as an important element in implementing the disease management program.