Pharmaceutical literacy and drug calendar service in tuberculosis patients, Nhongkrugori Hospital

10.30207/AHLA.202312.0054

Wassana wangpimoon；Sumitra Onpanna

Drug adherence ； Tuberculosis ； Pharmacist intervention

The Proceeding of the 9th AHLA International Health Literacy Conference: Health Literacy and Social Resilience

2023（2023 / 12 / 01）

56 - 56

英文

Background: Several studies showed pharmacist interventions improved clinical outcomes in several chronic and severe diseases, also tuberculosis (TB). Nevertheless, no practical guideline implicated for formal pharmacist intervention. Objectives: To assist and promote coherence and adherence of Tb drug, and to participate in get reach of this lung infectious clinical goal. Method: We researched and developed pharmaceutical services by using intensive drug counseling and providing pharmaceutical equipment as drug calendar among 56 tuberculosis patients in Nhongkrungsri hospital, during 2020-2021. Results: 56 patients were counselled by TB drug literacies and administrated with Tb drug calendar, with 301 pharmaceutical cares visiting (average 5.3 visiting per person form standard 6 months Tb drug regimen) for each patient’s full treatment regimens. Our patients were mostly found as male (40 patient, 71.4%) and mainly diagnosed with positive sputum test lung Tb (45patients, 80.4%). We found success rate of Tb drug combination of these pharmaceutical services as 98.5% during 6-9 months of individual drug exposes. Liver enzyme increasing was core adverse drug effects (10patients., 17.9%) from Pyrazinamide and Rifampicin. Conclusion: We want to indicate drug intensive counselling and these pharmaceutical services showed us satisfied clinical outcomes of TB treatment. Otherwise, drug literacy and drug calendar should be stipulated for main complementary of pharmaceutical care process, especially in chronic and severe disease.