Management of Acute Uncomplicated UTIs in Adults by Community Pharmacists

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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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.

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

Conditions
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Urinary Tract Infections, Urinary Tract Infection Lower Acute

Intervention / Treatment
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* Other: Educational training


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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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.

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Interventional Model Description: The pharmacists in the interventional group will receive educational training after baseline assessment while those in the control group will receive the same training at the end of the study
Masking: Triple


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Pharmacists in the intervention group<br>The pharmacist will be given an online educational training on management of acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections | Other: Educational training<br>* Pharmacists in the intervention group will given detailed online educational training on how to recognize and manage acute uncomplicated urinary tract infections in adults.<br>|
| No Intervention: Pharmacists in the control group<br>pharmacists in this group will not be trained, until after the completion of the study. | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 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) | 
| 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) | 
| Appropriate management of urinary tract infection | Infectious Disease Society of America treatment guideline | Through the study completion (an average of 6 months) | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Urinary Tract Infections, Pharmacist, Mystery Patient