Pharmacist Resident Jacksonville, Florida, United States
Objectives: The primary endpoint of the study is to determine how community pharmacist in a large chain pharmacy could improve patient knowledge and self-care of foot health in patients preferred language in English or Spanish and how following up in 2 months will improve patients’ self-practice on foot examination pre intervention vs. post intervention in a community pharmacy.
Methods: This is prospective cohort study will be conducted over a four-month period at a single community pharmacy located in Jacksonville, Florida. To initiate this study, potential study patients were identified by using the community pharmacy’s patient care management system. Patients must be 18 years of age and older, currently on an oral diabetes medication, and identified as a type 2 diabetic through the patient care management system. Patients that were excluded from the study were patients with type 1 diabetes, or history of amputation(s) due to uncontrolled blood glucose. Patients are contacted and asked for their consent to participate in the study. Two attempts are made to get in contact with patients if not successfully contacted patient are excluded. In a 10-15 minute in depth conversation style patients are asked about foot screening and will be provided education on foot care plus some helpful key tips on how to check their feet daily. Conversation was formulated to a specific questionnaire survey where the patient was asked questions on whether the patient performs footcare health self-management and how often, similar to MA’en Zaid Abu Qamar and Anne Wilson qualitative inquiry foot care within the Jordanian healthcare system and Lincoln NB validation of a new measure of protective footcare behavior. Other data points that are collected through the conversation would be age, length of diabetes, history of ulcers or foot sores, previously received foot screening, and if previously educated on footcare and on current nerve pain medications. Patients that are successfully reached will be educated in their preferred language English or Spanish and was provided with different websites, written patient education materials, and images where they can always refer to know more about diabetes and self-foot examination. Patient’s will be contacted in 2 months with a follow up call. With patient’s consent, the same survey questionnaire style will be conducted to determine if there was a change in knowledge and behaviors. Results will show the comparison of how many times a week a patient performed a self-foot examination pre intervention compared to post intervention.
Results: Results will determine if there was a change in knowledge and behaviors after conducting education on foot care. Results will be reported by analyzing patients’ responses pre-intervention vs. post intervention.
