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- Title
Attitudes and beliefs of older adults and caregivers towards deprescribing in French-speaking countries: a multicenter cross-sectional study.
- Authors
Roux, Barbara; Rakheja, Bianca; Sirois, Caroline; Niquille, Anne; Pétein, Catherine; Ouellet, Nicole; Spinewine, Anne; Sibille, François-Xavier; Laroche, Marie-Laure
- Abstract
Purpose: Successful deprescribing requires understanding the attitudes of older adults and caregivers towards this process. This study aimed to capture these attitudes in four French-speaking countries and to investigate associated factors. Methods: A multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted by administrating the French version of the revised Patients' Attitudes Towards Deprescribing (rPATD) questionnaire in Belgium, Canada, France, and Switzerland. Community-dwelling or nursing home older adults ≥ 65 years taking ≥ 1 prescribed medications and caregivers of older adults with similar characteristics were included. Multivariate logistic regressions were carried out to examine factors associated with willingness to deprescribe. Results: A total of 367 older adults (79.3 ± 8.7 years, 63% community-dwelling, 54% ≥ 5 medications) and 255 unrelated caregivers (64.4 ± 12.6 years) of care recipients (83.4 ± 7.9 years, 52% community-dwelling, 69% ≥ 5 medications) answered the questionnaire. Among them, 87.5% older adults and 75.6% caregivers would be willing to stop medications if the physician said it was possible. Reluctance to stop a medication taken for a long time was expressed by 46% of both older adults and caregivers. A low score for the factor "concerns about stopping" (older adults: aOR: 0.21; 95% CI: 0.07–0.59), and a high score for the factor "involvement" (older adults: aOR: 2.66; 95% CI: 1.01–7.07; caregivers: aOR: 11.28; 95% CI: 1.48–85.91) were associated with willingness to deprescribe. Conclusions: A significant proportion of older adults and caregivers of French-speaking countries are open to deprescribing. Despite this apparent willingness, deprescribing conversations in clinical practice remains marginal, emphasizing the importance of optimizing the integration of existing tools such as rPATD.
- Subjects
BELGIUM; CANADA; SWITZERLAND; FRANCE; CAREGIVER attitudes; RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE intervals; CROSS-sectional method; MULTIPLE regression analysis; LANGUAGE &; languages; DEPRESCRIBING; TREATMENT duration; PATIENTS' attitudes; HEALTH attitudes; QUESTIONNAIRES; INDEPENDENT living; DRUGS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; PATIENT compliance; ODDS ratio
- Publication
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2022, Vol 78, Issue 10, p1633
- ISSN
0031-6970
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00228-022-03368-1