Management of Acute Uncomplicated UTIs in Adults by Community Pharmacists

Urinary Tract Infections Clinical Trial

— [UTI]  

Official title:

Impact of Online Counselling Training For Pharmacists on The Management of Acute Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infections in Adults; A Double-blind Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05399797
• Other study ID #: taofiqclinical
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 21, 2022
• Est. completion date: November 2022

Study information

• Verified date: May 2022
• Source: University of Ibadan
• Contact: Abdulhafiz T Taofiq, B.Pharm.
• Phone: +2347063798732
• Email: taofiq32[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is to be conducted in community pharmacies. It involves the use of trained mystery patients to evaluate community pharmacists at baseline and post intervention. The pharmacists will be divided into control and intervention groups using computer generated codes. Those in the intervention group will receive an online training by clinical pharmacists. The training will employ the use of didactic teaching and the use of case studies and simulations covering the diagnosis and management of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections in adults. Post intervention, mystery patients will revisit the community pharmacists in the control and intervention groups for re-assessment.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 80
• Est. completion date: November 2022
• Est. primary completion date: September 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• The superintendent pharmacist, or the pharmacist manager or any other post National Youth Service Corps pharmacist

Exclusion Criteria:

• Interns, and pharmacists undergoing the mandatory National Youth Service Corps program.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Communicable Diseases
• Infections
• Urinary Tract Infection Lower Acute
• Urinary Tract Infections

Intervention

Other:
• Educational training
Pharmacists in the intervention group will given detailed online educational training on how to recognize and manage acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections in adults.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Nigeria	University of Ibadan	Ibadan	Oyo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Ibadan

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Nigeria, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Questioning skill score	Expert Panels' Relevant Questions - Through 80% consensus the expert panel picked 50 relevant questions. The minimum score is "0" and the maximum score is "50". The higher the score the better the questioning skill.	Through the study completion (an average of 6 months)
Primary	Correct diagnosis of Acute Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection	using the Infectious Disease Society of America treatment guideline, the pharmacists should be able to reach a diagnosis of Acute Uncomplicated Urinary Tract Infection. Appropriate diagnosis will be classified as "Correct diagnosis" and inappropriate diagnosis will be classified as "Incorrect diagnosis". Proportion will be used to describe the number of community pharmacists who got the diagnosis Correct and Incorrect.	Through the study completion (an average of 6 months)
Primary	Appropriate management of urinary tract infection	Infectious Disease Society of America treatment guideline	Through the study completion (an average of 6 months)