Thangamani Subramani, Kalaiselvan Vivekananthan, Vijayakumar Arumugam
Aim & Objective: The present study was aimed to determine the extent to which people recently diagnosed with high lipid profile modify their lifestyles after the life style modification counseling.
Methods: The prospective interventional study was conducted in a tertiary care teaching hospital, Tamilnadu and involved 57 newly disgnosed dyslipidemia patients in all age groups. The Subjects were assigned to receive life style modification counselling after diagnosis and their results during reviews were compared between baseline values. By using questionnaire, patients assigned with the life style modification counseling were interviewed for their response.
Results: The statistically significant improvements were seen in the smoking cessation, diet, physical activity and moderate alcohol intake in the overall and both age groups (<40years, ≥40years) and a smaller change was seen in decreasing BMI. Life style modification counseling improves patient’s lifestyle. No significant improvement in BMI on those patients is needed to find effective methods and behavioral treatment for providing wide scale intervention.
Conclusion: Pharmacists need to be able to provide more patient counseling about risk factors, therapeutic lifestyle modifications to the patients and to achieve lasting lifestyle changes, it is likely that system changes are needed, such as the creation of multidisciplinary teams with expertise in counseling and the remuneration of time spent in lifestyle counseling.
