Atención farmacéutica en pacientes adultos mayores con diabetes mellitus tipo 1 y 2, atendidos en el Hospital General “Isidro Ayora” de Loja en el área de consulta externa en el periodo abril-septiembre 2015.

Abstract

In 2013 the prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in Ecuador was 7% according to the WHO. The principal objective of the study was to assess whether pharmaceutical care performed through individualized health education and monitoring programs improve the degree of adherence to treatment in older patients with diabetes mellitus type I and II, treated at the General Hospital "Isidro Ayora" of Loja in the outpatient area in the period from April to September 2015. The indirect methods used were belonging to Morisky-Green and Batalla to measure the degree of compliance by patients getting a Chi-square 1,852, while glycosylated hemoglobin value for a Student t test was obtained 2.26 significance level of p = 0.03; It is indicating that glycated hemoglobin levels are highly significant with mean values found of 8.03% before and 7.23% after the pharmacological program. Training provided during the period of six months, allows for a greater adherence to pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatment.