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Drug counselling to improve the taking of short-term antibiotics as prescribed

Modification of pharmaceutical counseling enhances patient adherence with short-term antibiotics use compared with conventional drug information

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
ISRCTN
Registry ID
ISRCTN82062391
Enrollment
300
Registered
2020-12-22
Start date
2020-12-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2022-10-10

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Conditions

Patient adherence to short-term antibiotics Not Applicable

Interventions

A baseline survey is conducted to measure the level of knowledge and attitudes of short-term antibiotic use in pharmacy patients. Participants are randomly allocated to the interventi

Sponsors

Udayana University
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Aged =18 years 2. Come to the pharmacy to buy antibiotics by prescription 3. Willing to become respondents by agreeing to the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: Patients who are doctors, nurses, midwives and other health workers

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Patients adherence measured using Morisky Medication Adherence Scale -8 by telephone questionnaire when the drug is predicted to run out, 3-7 days from the time the patient came to the pharmacy to buy the drug

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Problems arising in patient adherence or non-adherence to antibiotic therapy and the opinions of various parties on the implementation of the modified pharmaceutical counseling, collected by telephone interviews with patients (3-7 days from the time the patient came to the pharmacy to buy the drug) and interviews with service providers (at the pharmacy during the participant recruitment) and policyholders (at any convenient time and place during the data collection by appointment)

Countries

Indonesia

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ISRCTN (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 12, 2026