Enablers and barriers to community pharmacists' readiness to implement deprescribing of inappropriate medications for older adults in Qatar.

ABSTRACT: There is paucity of studies focused on the enablers and barriers to community pharmacists' readiness to deprescribe inappropriate medications for older adults in developing settings. The current study assessed the enablers and barriers to community pharmacists' readiness to implement deprescribing of inappropriate medications for older adults. A cross-sectional survey of 252 community pharmacists was conducted in Qatar with a pre-tested 24-item questionnaire developed with the theory of domain framework. Information about perceived enablers and barriers were elicited with a 5-point Likert-type scale. The response rate was 79.4% (200/252). The majority of the community pharmacists were females (54.5%), within the age range of 20-40 years (88.0%), had BSc / BPharm as the highest educational

SUBMITTER: Elshazly M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11781633 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature