Status:

COMPLETED

How do Older Adults and Caregivers Feel About Their Medications?

Lead Sponsor:

Monash University

Collaborating Sponsors:

Guardian

NTUC Unity

Conditions:

Deprescribing

Eligibility:

All Genders

65+ years

Brief Summary

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

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • 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

  • 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.

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

July 25 2017

Trial Type :

OBSERVATIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

March 30 2018

Estimated Enrollment :

1057 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT03233971

Start Date

July 25 2017

End Date

March 30 2018

Last Update

April 4 2018

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Singapore, Singapore