How do Older Adults and Caregivers Feel About Their Medications?

Completed

• Conditions: Deprescribing
• Interventions: Other: rPATD Questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT03233971
• Lead Sponsor: Monash University

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to study patients' and caregivers' perspectives towards deprescribing using the Revised Patients' Attitudes Towards Deprescribing (rPATD) questionnaire.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2017-07-24
• Study Start: 2017-07-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-07-27
• Study First Posted: 2017-07-31
• Primary Completion: 2018-03-30
• Study Completion: 2018-03-30
• Status Verified: 2018-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-04-03
• Last Update Posted: 2018-04-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1057

Inclusion Criteria

• Older adults' inclusion criteria:

  • age at least 65 years;
  • taking one or more long-term prescription medication;
  • have not participated in this anonymous questionnaire previously

• Caregivers' inclusion criteria:

  • currently an informal caregiver for an older adult (defined as having any role in a family member or friend's management of health and/or medications);
  • care recipient must be at least 65 years of age and taking one or more long-term prescription medication;
  • have not participated in this anonymous questionnaire previously

Exclusion Criteria

• Older adults' exclusion criteria:

  • inability to complete a questionnaire in English.

• Caregivers' exclusion criteria:

  • caregiver's age less than 21 years;
  • caregiver's inability to complete a questionnaire in English.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Older adults	rPATD Questionnaire	-
Caregivers	rPATD Questionnaire	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
rPATD questionnaire scorings	up to 9 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Multi-centres; 🇸🇬 Singapore, Singapore