How do Older Adults and Caregivers Feel About Their Medications?

Monash University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Deprescribing

Treatments: Other: rPATD Questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03233971

2017-8872

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Enrollment: 1,057 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

1,057 participants in 2 patient groups

Older adults

Treatment:

Other: rPATD Questionnaire

Caregivers

Treatment:

Other: rPATD Questionnaire