Urinary Tract Infections, Urinary Tract Infection Lower Acute
Conditions
Keywords
Urinary Tract Infections, Pharmacist, Mystery Patient
Brief summary
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.
Interventions
OTHEREducational training
Pharmacists in the intervention group will given detailed online educational training on how to recognize and manage acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections in adults.
Sponsors
University of Ibadan
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Masking description
The participating pharmacists, the mystery patient and the investigator will not know who is in the control or the intervention group
Intervention model description
The pharmacists in the interventional group will receive educational training after baseline assessment while those in the control group will receive the same training at the end of the study
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
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.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Questioning skill score | Through the study completion (an average of 6 months) | Expert Panels' Relevant Questions - Through 80% consensus the expert panel picked 50 relevant questions. The minimum score is 0 and the maximum score is 50. The higher the score the better the questioning skill. |
| Correct diagnosis of Acute Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection | Through the study completion (an average of 6 months) | using the Infectious Disease Society of America treatment guideline, the pharmacists should be able to reach a diagnosis of Acute Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection. Appropriate diagnosis will be classified as Correct diagnosis and inappropriate diagnosis will be classified as Incorrect diagnosis. Proportion will be used to describe the number of community pharmacists who got the diagnosis Correct and Incorrect. |
| Appropriate management of urinary tract infection | Through the study completion (an average of 6 months) | Infectious Disease Society of America treatment guideline |
Countries
Nigeria
Contacts
Primary ContactAbdulhafiz T Taofiq, B.Pharm.
Backup ContactSegun J Showande, Ph.D.
Outcome results
None listed