Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder or it is chronic disorders has emerged as a major health care problem throughout worldwide and involve many complications till end of course that may impair quality of life and hence leads to problems in patient‟s daily life. From two last decades the pharmacist role as dramatically changed and becoming more patient oriented. Patient counselling done by the pharmacist with providing knowledge and information to patient regarding better management of disease, lifestyle modification and patient adherence to the prescribed medication. The aim of this study was to asses the pharmacist mediated patient counselling on quality of life in type 2 diabetes patients at a tertiary care hospital. A prospective study was carried out for a period of six months at the department of medicine in HKES‟s Basaveshwar teaching and general hospital, (BTGH) Gulbarga. A total of 76 patients were carried out in the study male were 46 and female were 30.A total of 62 patients were enrolled in the study in that 32 were in Test group and 30 were in control group and categorized by simple randomization technique. The Quality of life was assessed using WHO-BREF questionnaires and data‟s were collected and analysed by using student‟t‟ Test. In our study we found that Test group shows improvement in quality of life score from baseline to 2nd follow up (>11 units) after educational intervention.No improvements in total score of control group were observed. It was also statically (p<0.0001) significant. The results suggest that pharmacist provided patient counselling was shown better control over diabetic patient of Test group and improved the quality of life in the patients. The Pharmacist can play a vital role in improving the treatment outcomes and quality of life of diabetic type 2 patients.
