Management of Acute Uncomplicated UTIs in Adults by Community Pharmacists

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Urinary Tract Infection Lower Acute; Urinary Tract Infections
• Interventions: Other: Educational training

• Registration Number: NCT05399797
• Lead Sponsor: University of Ibadan

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.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-03-21
• Status Verified: 2022-05
• Study First Submitted: 2022-05-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-05-26
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-05-26
• Study First Posted: 2022-06-01
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-01
• Primary Completion: 2022-09
• Study Completion: 2022-11

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 80

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.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Pharmacists in the intervention group	Educational training	The pharmacist will be given an online educational training on management of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
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
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.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Ibadan; 🇳🇬 Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria