Factors influencing healthcare providers' behaviours in deprescribing: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Deprescribing serves as a pivotal measure to mitigate the drug-related problem due to polypharmacy. This study aimed to map the factors influencing healthcare providers' deprescribing decision using the Behaviour Change Wheel framework and develop an innovative conceptual model to support deprescribing practice.

Methods

A cross-sectional online survey targeting doctors and pharmacists was conducted to assess the influence of various factors on healthcare providers' comfort in recommending deprescribing. The conceptual model was formulated, based on the existing deprescribing framework and the Behaviour Change Wheel. The model's robustness was scrutinised through Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), and model-fitting indices were employed

SUBMITTER: Chang CT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11407382 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature