Patient Counseling

The patient was with known diagnosis of diabetes mellitus type 1 with a headache and giddiness at the time of admission. We herein describe a case of the 14 years old patient with the plasma glucose level had given negative results to DM, as well as her laboratory tests also showed that she had poorly controlled DM and minor ear wax problem. Patients present with diabetic ketoacidosis after several days of polyuria, polydipsia, polyphagia and weight loss. The patient was found underweight due to her low BMI and she had multiple admissions of diabetic ketoacidosis and DM. Her RBS was too high until out of normal range. Furthermore, the lab result showed the glucose was found presence in her urine test. The effective patient counselling was given to diabetes mellitus along with the insulin treatment and along with other relative drugs to increase the patient’s quality of life. Our case emphasizes that early recognition and appropriate patient counselling by the pharmacists may significantly overcome the symptoms and prevent complications of diabetes mellitus which may enhance the quality of life in patients at any age.

Knowledge of Diabetes is an integral component for attaining optimal disease control, and reduce mortality. Patient counseling by Pharmacist would motivate the patients to attain better understanding of their Disease, its treatment and helps them to adopt healthy life style to avoid future complications. Assessment of Diabetes Knowledge in Diabetic Patients and Patient Counseling. A Cross sectional survey study was carried out over 6 months with 305 Diabetic patients in General Medicine department of Owaisi Hospital and Research centre, Hyderabad, India. A questionnaire consisting Demographic details and 21 questions relating to the patients’ knowledge of Diabetes was provided to the participants. The patients were later counseled by using Patient Information Leaflet. The results were expressed as Mean, Standard deviation and in number (%). MS Excel spread sheet have been used to generate graphs, Tables etc. Of the 305 patients 45% were male and 55% were female with a mean age of 55.52±6.9 years (range 20 to 80). About 59.3% of patients had positive family history, 65.9% of participants did not know what diabetes was. 63.5% of people thought mental stress to be the only cause for diabetes and 81.3% of subjects never received patient counseling. Study subjects showed knowledge deficits pertaining to causes, prevention and Medications used in Diabetes and very less number of patients received Counseling. These results highlight the need for educational programmes aimed at improving the knowledge of DM patients.