Pharmaceutical Care in Ambulatory Hemodialysis Patients

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Chronic Renal Diseases; Renal Failure Chronic Requiring Hemodialysis; Medication Adherence
• Interventions: Other: Pharmaceutical care

• Registration Number: NCT02452788
• Lead Sponsor: Hospital Moinhos de Vento

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmaceutical care, compared to usual care, in improving medication adherence behaviour of ambulatory hemodialysis patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2015-05
• Study Start: 2015-05
• Study First Submitted: 2015-05-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-05-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-05-20
• Study First Posted: 2015-05-25
• Last Update Posted: 2015-05-25
• Primary Completion: 2015-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• Aged 18 years or more
• Chronic renal patients undergoing regular hemodialysis
• Receiving their scheduled medications (at least one drug)

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Exclusion Criteria

• Unable to answer the questionnaire or to sign the informed consent form
• Inability to obtain prescription drugs

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention	Pharmaceutical care	Pharmaceutical care with educational intervention provided by a pharmacist to ambulatory hemodialysis patients

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Medication adherence	one month	High adherence according to the Brief Medication Questionnaire

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life	one month	Quality of life will be evaluated with EQ-5D questionnaire

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hospital Moinhos de Vento; 🇧🇷 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil