Assessment of Prescription Pattern, Follow-Up Pattern and Impact of Pharmacist Initiated Educational Intervention on Medication Adherence in Patients with Psychiatric Disorders

Background: To conduct a prospective observational study on prescribing pattern, follow-up pattern and impact of pharmacist initiated educational intervention on medication adherence in patient with psychiatric disorder. Aim And Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of clinical pharmacist interventions in the psychiatric setting in patient with psychiatric disorders. To find out the prescription pattern and follow up pattern of anti-psychotic medication in department of psychiatry. To identify the drug related problems of anti-psychotic medication in psychiatric patients. To improve the medication adherence of psychiatric patients. Methods: A Prospective interventional study of 6 months was conducted. Undertaken 102 patients’ data collection form of all the patient of outpatient department of age 18 ≥ years of psychiatric disorder with or without co-morbidity. Results: The results of this analysis suggest that out of the total 102 psychiatric patient included in the study 59 patient were males while 43 patients were females. Out of the total study subject, among the 102 psychiatric patients, patient with psychosis were found to be 40(39.21%), followed by insomnia 14(13.72%), schizophrenia 13(12.74%), anxiety disorder 12(11.76%), bipolar disorder 7(6.86%), anger disorder 5(4.90%), depression 5(4.90%), and with other psychiatric disorder were 6(5.88%). Conclusion: This study concludes that psychiatric disorder was more seen in male patient compared to female patients most of them were in the age of 31-45 years constituting of 37.25% of total patients during the study it is observed that Risperidone was the most commonly prescribed Anti-psychotic drug and it was mostly prescribed with Trihexyphenidyl.