How do Older Adults and Caregivers Feel About Their Medications?

Patients' and Caregivers' Attitudes Towards Deprescribing in the Asian Community Setting

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

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Deprescribing
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: rPATD Questionnaire

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 1057

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Singapore
  • Singapore, Singapore
    • Multi-centres

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 65 years and older (Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Potential participants will be selected by convenient sampling from walk-in patients/caregivers who present at the participating pharmacies seeking advice or medication.

Description

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 Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Observational Models: Other
• Time Perspectives: Prospective

Number of groups / cohorts

2

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Older adults	Other: rPATD Questionnaire; A 5-point Likert scale questionnaire consisting of 22 questions for older adults, and 19 questions of caregivers.
Caregivers	Other: rPATD Questionnaire; A 5-point Likert scale questionnaire consisting of 22 questions for older adults, and 19 questions of caregivers.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
rPATD questionnaire scorings	up to 9 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Monash University
• Collaborators: National University Hospital, Singapore; Guardian; NTUC Unity; Watsons; Kwong Wai Shiu Hospital; Ang Mo Kio - Thye Hua Kwan Hospital; Khoo Teck Puat Hospital; Singapore General Hospital; Tan Tock Seng Hospital; National Healthcare Group Pharmacy

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): July 25, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 30, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): March 30, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 24, 2017
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 27, 2017
• First Posted (Actual): July 31, 2017

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): April 4, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 3, 2018
• Last Verified: April 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 2017-8872

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No