Assessment of pharmacist mediated patient counseling on knowledge, attitude and practices on hypertension in compliance with antihypertensive drugs in South Indian city

Abstract

The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological survey was to determine hypertensive patients’ knowledge, perceptions, attitudes and life-style practices so as to optimize their health and treatment needs. We examined a cohort of 123 randomly selected hypertensive by means of a self-structured questionnaire and a detailed interview. Analysis was by statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) and chi-square of the GraphPad Prism software was used for significance tests The results shown that pharmacist mediated patient counseling of hypertensive patients was studied in 123 individuals intervention and  its significance was tested with paried –T  test, there was substantial increase in their Knowledge, Attitude as well as Practice and  it was statically significant of  P<0.001.