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Rational Drug Use in Elderly People

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Selcuk University

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Rational Drug Use

Treatments

Behavioral: Education
Behavioral: Counseling
Other: Medicine Box
Other: Rational Drug Use Guide

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Irrational drug use, which is an important public health problem worldwide, is common in the elderly. While irrational drug use negatively affects all age groups, it poses a significant threat to the health of the elderly. This study aims to examine the effects of 8-week interventions, which include training, counseling and awareness-raising nursing practices for rational drug use and awareness development, through home visits to elderly individuals; planned in a randomized controlled experimental design.

The research will be carried out between May-July 2022 in Halkapınar Central Family Health Center located in Konya province Halkapınar district. The study group will be randomly assigned 35 experimental and 35 control groups, a total of 70 elderly individuals. Attempts made for the experimental group for eight weeks; Education through home visits on rational drug use will include counseling, guidance on rational drug use, and the delivery of a medicine box. The control group will continue with the routine applications. Taking into account the right of the control group to be informed about ethics after the post-tests, the training, guide and medicine box will also be given to the control group through home visits given to the experimental group. Data will be collected by face-to-face interview method using the Elderly Information Form, Rational Drug Use Scale and Rational Drug Use Awareness Scale.

Enrollment

54 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

65+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Be 65 years or older
  • Living in Halkapınar
  • Registering with the Central Family Health Centre
  • Be able to speak Turkish

Exclusion criteria

  • Having a score below 24 on the Standardized Mini Mental Test
  • Having any communication or medically diagnosed mental problems
  • Being bedridden
  • Having a neurological problem

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

54 participants in 2 patient groups

Experiment
Experimental group
Description:
Education, rational drug use guide and consultancy services will be provided to elderly individuals through home visits.
Treatment:
Other: Rational Drug Use Guide
Behavioral: Education
Other: Medicine Box
Behavioral: Counseling
Control
No Intervention group
Description:
No intervention will be made to the control group, and after the post-test, the rational drug use guide and the medicine box will also be given to the control group.

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