A hospital-based questionnaire study to describe the likely desire of physicians and patients to be involved in process of deprescribing in the form of a questionnaire.
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: Z020- Encounter for examination for admission to educational institution
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/01/030518
- Lead Sponsor
- Kasturba Medical College
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion: Patients of either sex, above the age of 40, diagnosed with chronic illnesses like hypertension, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular disease etc, taking five or more drugs will be included in the study.
Older patients will be defined as age above 60 at the time of data collection.
For physicians:
Inclusion: All doctors practicing in the department of medicine for at least 1 month will be included in the study, which includes senior faculties like professors, associate professors and junior faculties like assistant professors, senior residents and post graduates.
For patients
Patients diagnosed with chronic disease but having less than five medications for treatment are excluded from the study
Patients who have cognitive impairment, will be excluded from the study
Patients not having access to internet are excluded from the study
For Physicians
Physicians not giving informed consent will be excluded from the study
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - To determine patientâ??s beliefs and attitude in the concept of deprescribing medication and thoughts on the number of medications they were taking and willingness to discontinue them. <br/ ><br>- To identify demographic and clinical factors that influence the prescribing and deprescribing process <br/ ><br>- To explore the attitudes and awareness of deprescribing medications among physicians in a tertiary care hospitalTimepoint: 12 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - To explore enablers and barriers for physicians in the process of deprescribing. <br/ ><br>- To validate the questionnairesâ?? used in the study for the Indian population in this communityTimepoint: 6 months