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Original Research Article
Effect of Health Care
Professionals’ Continuing Education Programme on
Diabetic Patients’ Outcomes in Mukalla City, Yemen
Salmeen D Babelgaith1*,
Mohd Baidi2, Mohamed Al-Arifi1,
Saeed Alfadly3 and Syed Wajid1
1Clinical Pharmacy Department,
Drug and Poison Information Center, College of Pharmacy,
King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, 2AIMST
University, Bedong, Kedah, Malaysia, 3Pharmacy
Department, College of Medicine and Health Sciences,
Hadramout University, Mukalla, Yemen
*For correspondence:
Email:
drsalmeen@yahoo.com; Tel:
+966557895570; 0096614677354; Fax: 0096614674229
Received: 29 September 2014 Revised accepted: 9 January
2015
Tropical Journal of Pharmaceutical Research,
February 2015;
14(2): 303-309
http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/tjpr.v14i2.16
Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the impact of
educational intervention by health care providers on
clinical outcomes in type 2 diabetes patients in a
Yemeni health facility.
Methods: A prospective, one-group and pre-
and post-test design to assess the effects of health
care providers’ education on clinical patient outcomes
was undertaken. The study took place in Al-Noor Charity
Clinic (ACC), Mukalla City, Yemen. The subjects of this
study were type 2 diabetes patients who received health
services at ACC and met the inclusion criteria.
Patients’ diabetes-related clinical parameter assessed
were fasting blood glucose, weight, blood pressure, and
lipid profile, i.e., cholesterol, triglyceride (TG),
low density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol and high
density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol) at baseline,
i.e., before the intervention programme, and also at 6
months after the intervention.
Results: There was significant improvement in
clinical outcomes: fasting blood sugar (p = 0.004),
systolic blood pressure (p = 0.003) diastolic blood
pressure (p = 0.05), low density lipoprotein cholesterol
(p = 0.005) and high density lipoprotein cholesterol (p
= 0.001), but total cholesterol (p = 0.33) weight (p =
0.404) and triglyceride (p = 0.056) did not improve.
Conclusions: Educational intervention of health
care providers program does improve diabetic patients’
clinical outcomes.
Keywords: Diabetes care; Health care
providers, Patients' outcomes, Blood pressure, Lipid
profile, Cholesterol, Yemen |
