Nutritional, Metabolic, Endocrine
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: T2 DM patients who frequent the selected pharmacies and fulfill the following inclusion criteria: ? Age >18 years. ? Uncontrolled T2 DM ( HbA1c: 7+% ) ? Local resident within the pharmacy catchment area. ? Don’t have health insurance. ? Interested and willing to participate in the study. ? Submit a written consent to take part in the study.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: adult diabetic patients are excluded if they have: ? End stage renal disease and on dialysis. ? Decompensated liver disease or heart failure. ? Overt diabetes complications (eg, cerebrovascular strokes, lower limb amputation advanced retinopathy/ blindness, …..etc). ? Gestational diabetes or breast feeding mothers. ? Dementia. ? Already enrolled in other diabetes education programs.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Empowerment of community pharmacy-based partnership to enhance the chronic care of diabetes | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Designing and implementation of a simple and feasible diabetes care model (DCM) 2. Upgrading the patient knowledge and self-management of diabetes. 3. Improvement of the DCM clinical and economic outcomes and patient quality of life. 4. Decrement of the direct diabetes management cost and sickness duration 5. Sensitization of studied patients to notify individuals at risk of DM, pre-diabetics and diabetics. | — |
Countries
Egypt
Contacts
Lecturer of Endocrinology AUSH Alexandria University