Allah Bukhsh AwanInstitute of Pharmaceutical Sciences · UVAS, Lahore, Pakistan
Allah Bukhsh Awan
PhD (Clinical Pharmacy) Monash University
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Introduction
I have worked for 3.5 years in a tertiary care pediatrics hospital (Children Hospital Lahore, Pakistan) as hospital pharmacist and as a pharmacy academician and researcher in the discipline of pharmacy practice for 8 years in two leading public sector universities of Pakistan, ultimately gaining experience of teaching and research in pharmacy practice.
I am always striving to bring 100% to the work that I do, my goal is to explore new horizons of knowledge and learning in the field of Pharmacy Practice. I am passionate about latest and innovative teaching and research methodologies. I thrive in international research collaboration to foster knowledge and support innovative activities in the field of diabetes management research.
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November 2009 - July 2016
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Publications (67)
Background: Male infertility is an emerging health issue in the world today. Surgical interventions for the treatment of male infertility are available but are quite expensive. Herbal interventions pose a popular alternative for the treatment of infertility. However, much has to be learned regarding their safety and efficacy.
Objective: The aim of...
Introduction: There is a little evidence on efficacy of pharmacy-based interventions on clinical outcomes of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in Pakistan.
Objective: To appraise the impact of pharmacist-led self-care education on glycemic control, self-care practices and disease knowledge of T2DM patients with poor glycemic control (HbA1c ≥...
A qualitative exploration of pharmacists’ perceptions regarding COVID-19 conspiracies and their willingness to get vaccinated. A semi-structured questionnaire guide was developed using ground theory to conduct in-depth interviews. A total of 36 participants gave consent for an audio-recorded interview. Results have shown that most of the respondent...
Background. Infertility is an emerging health issue for men. Comparative efficacy of different pharmacological interventions on male infertility is not clear. The aim of this review is to investigate the efficacy of various pharmacological interventions among men with idiopathic male infertility. All randomized control trials evaluating the effectu...
Background and aims
Restless legs syndromes (RLS) are intrinsic sleeping disorder and its prevalence rate is 10–15% in general population but it is observed that prevalence rate is different in diabetes patients. Current study aims to find prevalence and determinants of RLS in people living with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Pakistan.
Method
A multi...
Abstract Background Reliable Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) assessment will be useful in identifying health issues and in identifying health care actions. Due to the lack of a psychometrically valid tool in Urdu, we aim to translate and examine the psychometric and cross-cultural adaptation of WHOQOL HIV Bref among people living with HIV/AI...
The tri-iodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) are the two important thyroid hormones through which endocrine system controls the cellular and intracellular functions of body. In response to certain stimuli, the hypothalamic thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) governs the release of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) from anterior pituitary. The thyr...
Objective
This study aimed to qualitatively explore perspectives, practices, and barriers to self-care practices in Urban Pakistani adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM).
Methods
Pakistani adults with T2DM were recruited from the outpatient departments of two hospitals in Lahore. Semi-structured interviews were conducted and audio-recorded un...
Objective
The Low Middle Income Countries (LMIC) like Pakistan are facing an escalation in the number of HIV cases, approximately more than 180,000 people are currently living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Currently, no HIV specific Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) tool is validated in Pakistan; therefore, the current analysis was aimed at translati...
Background Reliable Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) assessment will be useful in identifying health issues and in identifying health care actions. Due to the lack of a psychometrically valid tool in Urdu, we aim to translate and examine the psychometric and cross-cultural adaptation of WHOQOL HIV Bref among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA...
: Chronic kidney disease (CKD)-associated pruritus is a common and disturbing condition which has a negative impact on sleep quality, as well as overall health-related quality of life of patients receiving hemodialysis. To date, no systematic review has been undertaken, and there is a lack of concise evidence that statistically quantifies the impac...
Objective:
This study explored the relationship of disease knowledge with glycemic control and self-care practices in adult Pakistani people diabetes (PWD).
Methods:
People diagnosed with type 2 diabetes (n=218) were selected from three health care centers, located in different cities of Pakistan. Disease knowledge and self-care practices were a...
Background:
During the progress and resolution of a diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) episode, potassium levels are significantly affected by the extent of acidosis. However, none of the current guidelines take into account acidosis during resuscitation of potassium level in DKA management, which may increase the risk of cardiovascular adverse events....
Seasonal influenza is a highly contagious viral respiratory disorder. Prior knowledge of flu among general community is of paramount importance in order to mitigate its growing burden. In a pandemic, young adults are more likely to be infected increasing the potential for universities to be explosive disease outbreak centers. In this context, curre...
Introduction: Athletes train physically to reach beyond their potential maximum aerobic threshold. Whey protein supplements (WPS) are often used in conjunction with physiotherapy and psychotherapy to regain better vital sign and physical performances. This review aimed to explore the clinical evidence on the efficacy and safety of WPS in sports per...
Introduction: Athletes train physically to reach beyond their potential maximum aerobic threshold. Whey protein supplements (WPS) are often used in conjunction with physiotherapy and psychotherapy to regain better vital sign and physical performances. This review aimed to explore the clinical evidence on the efficacy and safety of WPS in sports per...
Background: Effectiveness of pharmacist-led educational interventions on self-care activities and glycemic control of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients is vague. The purpose of this review is to appraise the effect of pharmacist-led educational interventions on self-care activities and levels of glycated hemoglobin of T2DM patients.
Methods:...
Objective:
Association of various self-care activities on glycemic control of people with diabetes (PWD) in Pakistan is yet to be explored. The current study aimed to evaluate the association of various diabetes-related self-care activities with glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels and to examine the predictive relationship of patients' demographic...
Background: The irrational use, "over the counter supply", and unregulated supply chains of antimicrobials are contributing toward antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial stewardship programs regulate antimicrobials usage to prevent resistance and reduce health care burden. Objective: To assess the knowledge and practice of pharmacists' working in...
Introduction
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is common in patients with diabetes. The present qualitative study aims to explore patients’ beliefs and practices related to CAM use in patients with type 2 diabetes living in Lahore, Pakistan.
Methods
Qualitative one to one in-depth tape-recorded interviews, using a semi-structured gu...
Background Burn victims admitted in burn intensive care units (ICU) are at a high risk of nosocomial infections generated by methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). This systematic review aims to estimate the incidence of MRSA among burn patients admitted to the ICU setting, with an emphasis on the incidence rate and antibiotic resistan...
Background:
Burn victims admitted in burn intensive care units (ICU) are at a high risk of nosocomial infections generated by methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). This systematic review aims to estimate the incidence of MRSA among burn patients admitted to the ICU setting, with an emphasis on the incidence rate and antibiotic resist...
Background. The World Health Organization (WHO) declares Chikungunya (CHIK)
infection to be endemic in South Asia. Despite its first outbreak in Pakistan, no
documented evidence exists which reveals the knowledge or awareness of healthcare
students and workers (HCSW) regarding CHIK, its spread, symptoms, treatment and
prevention. Since CHIK is an e...
SPSS file
Each data point indicates the individual responses of participants to each question asked during data collection.
SPSS file of participants who were aware of Chikungunya
Each data point indicates the responses of participants who were aware of Chikungunya infection.
Background
Comparative efficacy of different pharmacist based interventions on glycemic control of type 2 diabetes patients is unclear. This review aimed to evaluate and compare the efficacy of different pharmacist based interventions on clinical outcomes of type 2 diabetes patients.
Methods
A systematic search was conducted across five databases...
Background:
Diabetes self-care activities, like, healthy diet, regular exercise, self-monitoring of blood glucose, and rational use of medicines are considered to play a vital role in establishing euglycemia. Health literacy among type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients in Pakistan is very low, which is the most likely cause for poor clinical out...
National immunization program of Pakistan does not include Influenza vaccines. The low rate of immunization might be attributed to the poor knowledge of influenza vaccination in Pakistan. Current study was aimed to assess the knowledge and attitude of influenza vaccination among parents. A questionnaire-based cross sectional study was conducted amo...
The aim of this study was to assess the factors associated with anxiety in type 2 diabetes mellitus patients (T2DM) by using Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale (HAM-A). A cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted after necessary ethical approval from Medicare Hospital Rawalpindi and Capital Development Authority Hospital Islamabad in accordance w...
Abstract Background Numerous study tools on diabetes self-care have been introduced; however, most existing tools do not show expectable and meaningful correlations with patients’ glycaemic control. The Diabetes Self-Management Questionnaire (DSMQ) was designed to appraise self-care activities which can predict glycaemic control outcomes. However,...
The increase in Muslim parents’ refusal and hesitancy to accept childhood vaccination was identified as
one of the contributing factors in the increase of vaccine-preventable diseases cases in countries such as
Afghanistan, Malaysia and Pakistan. The spread of inaccurate and irresponsible information by the antivaccination
movement may inflict more...
Objective
Patient education is a key element in the treatment of diabetes. Assessment of diabetes knowledge is important for optimum treatment. For the assessment of diabetes knowledge, validated tool is essential. None of such validated tool is available in Urdu language. Therefore, the aim of this study was to translate and examine the psychometr...
Aim
The present study was aimed to highlight the current prescribing pattern of oral hypoglycemia in type 2 diabetes mellitus and to evaluate the therapeutic effectiveness of these therapeutic categories in achieving target glycemic control.
Methods
This is a prospective, cross-sectional, observational study of 6 months’ duration conducted in a te...
180 million people are affected by chronic Hepatitis C Virus infection globally and more than 50 million in South East Asia. Combination of Interferon and Ribavirin is the current anti-HCV therapy in practice and is associated with certain hematologic adverse effects. In this concurrent observational study the incidence rate of major hematologic ad...
Objective: The study was designed to evaluate possible antihistaminic and anticholinergic activities of Equisetum debile.
Materials and Methods: Effects of crude ethanolic (Ed.Eth) and effects of crude aqueous (Ed.Aq) extracts of E. debile were studied using isolated guinea pig ileum, rabbit jejunum, and rabbit trachea. Tissue responses were record...
The objectives of this study were to assess the cold chain practices among centers at polio high risk areas of the country. A cross sectional study was conducted to assess the existing cold chain practices in Pakistan, keeping in consideration the standard cold chain maintenance protocols. Study was conducted using questionnaire embarking key perfo...
180 million people are affected by chronic Hepatitis C Virus infection globally and more than 50 million in South East Asia. Combination of Interferon and Ribavirin is the current anti-HCV therapy in practice and is associated with certain hematologic adverse effects. In this concurrent observational study the incidence rate of major hematologic ad...
Objective: Antimicrobial susceptibility trends of microbes among hospitalized patients in Tertiary Care Hospital Peshawar, Pakistan.
Method: Retrospective analysis of blood culture reports of inpatients (N=101), admitted in different wards, from January 7th 2015 and August 15th 2015.
Results: There were 43 (43%) females and 58 (57%) males with med...
This cross-sectional study comprises a questionnaire-based survey regarding knowledge about human papillomavirus and its vaccine among students in different educational fields at public and private universities in the city of Lahore in Pakistan. A 26-item questionnaire was used to attain the objective of this study. The reliability of this tool was...
Flurbiprofen is a propanoic acid derivative which is widely used and has well-known anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. Many new studies have emerged which display the immuno-pharmacological behavior of NSAIDs. The immunomodulatory activity of flurbiprofen was evaluated in this work by using immunological experimental models like cyclophospham...
This study was conducted to evaluate the availability of antidotes / key emergency drugs in tertiary care hospitals of the Punjab province, and to assess the knowledge of health care professionals in the stocking and administration of antidotes in the proper management of poisoning cases. Seventeen (n=17) tertiary care hospitals of Punjab Pakistan...
Drug use evaluation is the method of performance improvement that focuses on evaluation and improvement of drug use processes to achieve optimal patient outcomes. Assessment of antimicrobials can be performed by evaluating their use. The quality of pharmaceuticals is a worldwide concern, poor quality and substandard medicines can cause harm in vari...
This study was conducted to evaluate the availability of antidotes / key emergency drugs in secondary and tertiary care hospitals of the Punjab province, and to assess the knowledge of health care professionals in the stocking and administration of antidotes in the proper management of poisoning cases.
This study was designed to evaluate antihistaminic and anticholinergic activities of Murraya koenigii leaves. To observe the activities ethanolic (Mk.Eth) and aqueous (Mk.Aq) extracts of M. koenigii through in vitro analysis, isolated guinea pig ileum, rabbit trachea and jejunum tissues were used and tissues responses were recorded by Power Lab dat...
. This study consists of two parts: first, formulation and evaluation of effervescent floating tablets of norfloxacin using natural polymers by the application of Central Composite design (CCRD); second , analyzing the effect of independent variables (HPMC K15, Psyllium husk and MCC) on dependent variables i.e. flow properties (Hausner's ratio, Car...
To determine the type of pathogens causing bacterial endocarditis, their in vitro drug susceptibility profile and the effect of empirical antibiotic therapy in endocarditis patients.
The prospective study was conducted at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Lahore, from January to November 2013. Blood samples of endocarditis patients in the 20-40 a...
Diabetes mellitus is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Its incidence rate appears to be increasing in the last few decades. In this study prescribing pattern of medications in 100 ambulatory patients of diabetes mellitus was observed from September 2013 to December 2013 in Lahore. It was revealed from our study that di...
o find out commonly used antibiotic combinations in the management of neonatal sepsis, prevalence of early onset sepsis (EOS) and late onset sepsis (LOS) in a public sector tertiary care hospital of Lahore. Neonatal sepsis is a clinical syndrome of bacteremia with systemic signs and symptoms of infection in the first 4 weeks of life. Neonatal sepsi...
The use of antipsychotics has been widely increased in the management of psychotic disorders. The significant side effect reported by the use of antipsychotics is extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS) such as pseudoparkinsonism, akathesia, dyskinesia and dystonia. Many studies have been conducted to evaluate the relationship between antipsychotics and EPS....
Irrational prescribing of antibiotics is a major cause of antimicrobial resistance worldwide. Moreover the lack of attention by the physicians to the quality of prescriptions also play a key role in antimicrobial resistance and other problems such as patient medical record keeping, inappropriate dispensing and inadequate counseling by a pharmacist....
The study was done to see the prescription format and adherence to WHO core prescribing indicators in the pharmacies surrounding the major hospitals in Lahore. A total of 206 prescriptions were collected randomly from different pharmacies. They were analyzed for their adherence to prescription format and rationality of prescription. Patient & presc...
The importance of plants is well known to us. Life and its growth cannot be imagined without plants. Food for our survival is produced by plants and they also create a healthy and eco-friendly environment to live (Sazada et al., 2009). The use of various parts of different medicinal plants to cure specific ailments has been common from ancient time...
Projects
Projects (5)
To scrutinize the existing evidence base literature
To estimate the risk of bias in existing evidence base literature
To perform Meta analysis / Meta -Synthesis to make quantitative analysis for the comparative Pharma-co-therapy and Policy issues
To perform network-meta analysis to identify best treatment options
Explore factors influencing willingness to HPV vaccination in the region
Diabetes has become a serious clinical and public health problem around the globe. By the most recent estimates, around 415 million people worldwide have been diagnosed with diabetes mellitus (DM), and the number is expected to increase to 642 million by 2040, making it one of the leading non communicable health care concern worldwide. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, stroke, heart attack, blindness and lower limb amputations, and when not properly managed it will lead to higher health care cost, morbidity, and mortality, thereby creating greater financial burdens.
Diabetes is known to be a self-managed disease, as most (>90%) care is provided by the patients themselves. Importance of glycemic control is well established, as many studies reported reduction in diabetes related complication, but often it is not achieved. Although there are many factors which can influence optimum glycemic control, but adherence to relevant self-care activities, such as healthy diet, regular exercise, self-monitoring of blood glucose and use of medication are considered to play the leading role in establishing euglycaemia. A growing evidence has suggested that Patients’ adherence to diabetes self-care activities and medication therapy is associated with improved disease control and overall quality of life. The potential benefits of identifying factors that can augment self-care activities in diabetes are profound.
This research domain is required to be fully explored in order to identify reasons for suboptimal glycaemic control, and its association with patients’ self-care activities.
Submissions are welcome for this special issue. For details please refer to the following link http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/6304/self-care-in-diabetes#overview