Impact of Medication Therapy Management Intervention on Treatment Outcomes and Medication Adherence Among Adult Patients Comorbid With Diabetes Mellitus and Hypertension at Outpatient Clinics

This study aimed to assess the impact of medication therapy management intervention on treatment outcomes and medication adherence among patients comorbid with diabetes mellitus and hypertension at outpatient clinics in Southwest Ethiopia. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted at outpatient clinics of public hospitals in Southwest Ethiopia from March to December, 2022. Hospitals were randomly assigned to either the interventional or the control group. The patients attending hospitals assigned to interventional group received medication therapy management services in addition to usual care and those attended hospital assigned to control group received the usual care only. A systematic random sampling technique was used to select the study participants from each hospital. The differences in proportion between the groups was determined using the Pearson chi-square. The independent sample t-test was be done to compare means between groups and paired t-test was used to compare means in between intervention and controlled group. The p-value of \< 0.05 was used as a cut-off point to declare statistical significance.