Aram S Mardian, Martha Kent, Jenna L Gress-Smith, Lucia Ciciolla, Morgan L Regalado-Hustead, Brandon A Scott, Megan E Petrov
Biobehavior Life Regulation (BLR) scale for living well in chronic pain: Preliminary scale development and validation
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deprescribing clinical intervention aimed managing polypharmacy improving older adults health outcomes however evidence suggests healthcare professionals hcps may face challenges implementing intervention study aimed explore considerations barriers enablers deprescribing among hcps southwest nigeria quantitative crosssectional survey carried among consecutively sampled hcps including physicians pharmacists nurses two public tertiary healthcare hospitals ogun state southwest nigeria structured 43item selfadministered questionnaire used explore participants sociodemographics hcps experience considerations barriers enablers deprescribing older adults data summarised using descriptive statistics including frequency percentage kruskalwallis test used determine differences perceptions among groups likert scale pvalue 005 considered significant overall 453 copies questionnaire analysed participants 204 450 within age group 2030 years 173 382 claimed older adults occasionally requested deprescribing medications majority 417 921 considered patients quality life important deprescribing 423 934 opined care goal known members hcp team enabler deprescribing 308 680 disagreed strongly disagreed lack incentives remuneration hcps deprescribe barrier deprescribing significant difference among participants across professional groups assertion pressure pharmaceutical companies barrier deprescribing older adults p 0037 participants study various considerations deprescribing medication older adults including patients quality life care goal known every hcp involved managing patient enabler deprescribing lack incentives remuneration hcps deprescribe may necessarily barrier deprescribing need regulations policies support identified enablers among hcps reduce barriers effective deprescribing process