{"id":4342,"date":"2023-07-25T15:13:56","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/?p=4342"},"modified":"2023-07-28T11:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T11:16:51","slug":"west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2019-30-1-22-34-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/west-african-journal-of-pharmacy-2019-30-1-22-34-2\/","title":{"rendered":"West African Journal of Pharmacy (2019) 30 (1) 22 – 34"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Hospital pharmacists’ roles in promoting asthma self-management: a cross-sectional
study in a Nigerian tertiary Hospital<\/b>
Kosisochi Chinwendu Amorha, Jude Sopuruchi Madueke, Deborah Oyine Aluh, Mathew Jegbefume Okonta,\u00a0Chinwe Victoria Ukwe.<\/p>


Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of\u00a0Nigeria, Nsukka, PMB 410001, Enugu State, Nigeria.<\/p>


Corresponding author: Kosisochi Chinwendu Amorha<\/i><\/p>

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Background:<\/strong> According to the Nigerian Thoracic Society, there are about 15 million asthmatics in Nigeria. Poor\u00a0inhaler techniques may lead to inadequate symptom control or death. Pharmacists can promote asthma self-management through proper demonstration of the use of asthma devices.
Objectives:<\/strong> The objective of this study was to assess hospital pharmacists’ roles in promoting asthma self-management.\u00a0<\/p>

Methods:<\/b> A cross-sectional study was conducted among hospital pharmacists in the University of Nigeria\u00a0Teaching Hospital (UNTH) between May to July, 2017. As of the time of the study, there were 198 hospital\u00a0pharmacists practicing in UNTH. A 29-item structured self-administered questionnaire assessing information\u00a0on stock, action plan for pharmacists, opinions on current asthma management, interventions with asthma\u00a0patients and factors influencing pharmacists’ interventions with asthma patients was utilized. Validated
checklists were used to assess inhaler techniques and peak flow meter use, respectively, from participants’\u00a0demonstrations using dummy inhalers and peak flow meters. Poor techniques were corrected after each\u00a0demonstration.<\/p>

Results:<\/strong> Eighty three questionnaires were completed and returned (41.9% participation rate). More than 90%\u00a0of the hospital pharmacists claimed to educate patients about their asthma medications. Only about a quarter\u00a0(25.3%) claimed to help asthma patients use peak flow meters appropriately. Less than half (39.8%) of the\u00a0hospital pharmacists were willing to intervene with asthma patients. Summarily, the demonstrated good\u00a0techniques for the asthma devices were: pMDI (26.5%), accuhaler (24.1%), turbuhaler (14.5%), pMDI plus\u00a0spacer (1.2%), peak flow meter (1.2%).<\/p>

Conclusion:<\/strong> Although the hospital pharmacists believed that they had competence to educate on inhaler\u00a0techniques, they demonstrated poor inhaler techniques and were deficient in the knowledge of peak flow\u00a0meter use.<\/p>

Keywords:<\/strong> Asthma, Inhalers, Peak Flow Meter, Pharmacists, Nigeria<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Hospital pharmacists’ roles in promoting asthma self-management: a cross-sectionalstudy in a Nigerian tertiary HospitalKosisochi Chinwendu Amorha, Jude Sopuruchi Madueke, Deborah Oyine Aluh, Mathew Jegbefume Okonta,\u00a0Chinwe Victoria Ukwe. Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Management, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of\u00a0Nigeria, Nsukka, PMB 410001, Enugu State, Nigeria. Corresponding author: Kosisochi Chinwendu Amorha Email: kosisochi.amorha@unn.edu.ng Phone: +2348038539349 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4347,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4342\/revisions\/4347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wapcpharm.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}