Rational Drug Use in Elderly People

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

NCT05397847

555444

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

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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.