TY - JOUR AU - Zairina, Elida AU - Nugraheni, Gesnita AU - Achmad, Gusti NV AU - Sulistyarini, Arie AU - Nita, Yunita AU - Faisal, Shah AU - Bakhtiar, Arief AU - Amin, Muhammad PY - 2022/12/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Efficacy of an education session by pharmacists for patients with asthma: A randomised controlled trial JF - Pharmacy Education JA - Pharm Educ VL - 22 IS - 1 SE - Research Article DO - 10.46542/pe.2022.221.980988 UR - https://pharmacyeducation.fip.org/pharmacyeducation/article/view/2010 SP - p. 980-988 AB - <p><strong>Background:</strong> Asthma education interventions are provided by pharmacists in many developed countries, although it is still a matter of concern in developing countries. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmacist education sessions on asthma patients.  </p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A three-month single-blinded randomised control trial was conducted to evaluate the impact of pharmacist education sessions on asthma patients. The 60-minute pharmacist sessions provided education to patients about asthma management. The primary outcome of the study was to measure the change in the score of the asthma control questionnaire (ACQ).    </p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The 82 participants who completed the study were grouped into two groups. A clinically significant improvement of <em>p</em>&gt;0.5 in the ACQ score was found in the symptoms and environment domains in the intervention group. A significant difference in the ACQ score was also found between the two groups (<em>p</em>=&lt;0.05) after 1 and 2 months of intervention. The proportion of patients with controlled asthma increased from 26 (63.4%) to 31 (75.6%) after the second follow-up in the intervention group. Furthermore, a significant increase (<em>p</em>=0.043) in the AQLQ score was noticed from 4.834 at baseline to 5.433 after the intervention.     </p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> This study concluded that short-time pharmacist education sessions could improve patients asthma status and quality of life.</p> ER -