intervention included the usual counselling by pharmacist e.g. Patients Education regarding Medications

• Pharmacist counseling patients regarding their disease and severity
• Pharmacist counseling (5- to 10-minute sessions) on the proper and safe use of medication.
• Pharmacist counseling patients regarding the importance of their therapy (treatment), non-pharmacological treatment like diet and exercises.

pharmacist counselling regarding the preventive measures that prevent patient from triggers that can initiate asthmatic attacks.

No intervention

intervention included the usual counselling by pharmacist e.g. Patients Education regarding Medications

• Pharmacist counseling patients regarding their disease and severity
• Pharmacist counseling (5- to 10-minute sessions) on the proper and safe use of medication.
• Pharmacist counseling patients regarding the importance of their therapy (treatment), non-pharmacological treatment like diet and exercises.

pharmacist counselling regarding the preventive measures that prevent patient from triggers that can initiate asthmatic attacks.

Patient health related outcomes that is level of asthma control is measured by pre-validated tool Asthma Control test TM (ACT).

The Asthma Control Test™ assess responsiveness to changes in asthma control over time.

The tool has 5 questions with each having options with scores 1,2,3,4, and 5. A SCORE OF 19 OR LESS might be a warning of the need for further evaluation to determine whether adjustments to asthma treatment regimens or other measures are required to improve asthma control. If score is 15 or less, asthma may be poorly controlled or not controlled at all.

The primary aim of this study will be to evaluate the effectiveness/impact of a pharmacist educational intervention on medication adherence in Asthmatic patients.

Adherence will be measured using the adherence to asthma medication questionnaire (AAMQ-13 The AAMQ-13 is a reliable and valid questionnaire with several desirable characteristics as it has a high internal validity, good criterion validity, and strong construct validity. The AAMQ-13 is a suitable questionnaire that can identify non-adherent patients and reveal the reasons behind their non-adherence (intentional or unintentional non-adherence). Each question has Always, Often, sometimes, rarely and never response with scores allotted as 1,2,3,4 and 5 respectively, Score interpretation is as follows for the given tool Poor adherence Score= 13-29 Moderate adherence Score= 30-47 Excellent adherence= 48-65