Effect of a Multidimensional Pharmaceutical Care Intervention on Inhalation Technique in Patients with Asthma and COPD

Table 4

Quality of life in the intervention group and control group pre- and postintervention.

Group	Preintervention, mean ± SD	Postintervention, mean ± SD	Post-preintervention, mean ± SD		Improving exceed MCID, n (%)
Intervention group
ACT score (n = 106)	17.44 ± 4.35	20.94 ± 4.66	3.50 ± 4.65	<0.01^a	64 (60.38)	<0.01^b
CAT score (n = 27)	19.81 ± 6.74	15.67 ± 6.03	-4.15 ± 5.67	0.021^a	17 (62.96)	<0.01^b
Control group
ACT score (n = 90)	17.63 ± 4.37	18.32 ± 4.97	0.69 ± 3.05	0.325^a	13 (14.44)
CAT score (n = 36)	19.39 ± 5.21	18.44 ± 5.61	-0.94 ± 5.24	0.461^a	5 (13.89)

^aComparison of the ACT score and CAT score between pre- and postintervention, respectively. ^bComparison of quality of life improving exceed MCID between the intervention group and control group.