Development and validation of the Medical Attitudes Towards Deprescribing Questionnaire
© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Società Italiana di Medicina Interna (SIMI)..
Polypharmacy and inappropriate prescriptions in the elderly are widely discussed themes in scientific literature. Although more and more studies showed the safety and feasibility of deprescribing strategies, these are not implemented in clinical practice. In order to measure the attitudes of Italian doctors towards deprescribing and address their awareness, experiences, difficulties in applying these strategies and potential suggestions, we aimed to develop and validate a questionnaire, the Medical Attitudes Towards Deprescribing Questionnaire (MATD-Q). Between November 2017 and October 2018 an e-mail was sent to internists, geriatricians and general practitioners, to invite them to connect to a platform and answer to the questionnaire, consisting in 38 items (with a five level score) and five questions. After 2-3 weeks, a second e-mail was sent for a second completion of the questionnaire. Test-retest reliability was assessed by means of the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). The correlations between items were assessed by means of Pearson linear correlation coefficients and Cronbach Alpha was used to assess internal consistency. A total of 77 questionnaires completed twice were collected. By a principal component analysis we defined a smaller set of variables (n = 12), which resulted to be representative of the 38-item questionnaire.The final version of the questionnaire we developed (MATDQ-12), after validation in other cohorts, could be a useful tool to measure the efficacy of educational interventions aimed at improving the attitude of physicians towards deprescribing strategies with the final goal to allow their implementation in clinical practice.
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2024 |
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2024 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19 |
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Internal and emergency medicine - 19(2024), 2 vom: 19. März, Seite 413-422 |
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Englisch |
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Agosti, Pasquale [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Completed 21.03.2024 Date Revised 21.03.2024 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1007/s11739-023-03489-0 |
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