Subjective Factors of Polymedication in the Elderly: a Qualitative Study of the Perceptions of Patients, Relatives and Referent Physicians.(DOSAGE)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Frail Elderly Syndrome

Treatments

Other: individual interviews

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03309228

DOSAGE

Details and patient eligibility

About

The DOSAGE Study is a qualitative transversal study aiming to describe and understand the subjective factors of polymedication in the elderly population (75 years old and more), defined as 10 simultaneous drugs. Semi-structured interviews will be conducted with patients, relatives and general practitioners in one French region. 20 situations will be included. After analysing the data of the individual interviews, focus groups will be conducted with health professionals.

Enrollment

60 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

75+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

For patients:
- Men and women aged 75 and over
- Beneficiary of a prescription of medicinal products fulfilling the conditions of major polymedication: to include 10 different drugs whatever the way of use (per os, subcutaneous, intravenous, intra muscular, cutaneous, instillation)
- Informed consent stating that the subject understood the purpose and methodology of the study and agrees to participate in the study.
For the relatives:
- Men and women 18 years of age or older
- Informed consent
- Regularly participating in helping the patient's daily life
For Physicians :
- Identified as the patient's physician or family physician.
- Informed consent

Exclusion criteria

Persons with proven and significant cognitive impairment preventing the completion of semi-strutured interviews
Person who does not speak French easily
Generally, any person unlikely to cooperate in the study
Adults under guardianship
Refusal of relatives and/or general practitioner to participate to the study