Tools to measure barriers to medication management capacity in older adults : a scoping review

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BACKGROUND: Medication management capacity is a crucial component of medication adherence, particularly among older adults. Various factors, including physical abilities, cognitive functions, sensory capabilities, motivational, and environmental factors, influence older adults' ability to manage medications. It is, therefore, crucial to identify appropriate tools that allow clinicians to determine which factors may impact medication management capacity and, consequently, nonadherence to medications.

PURPOSE: 1)To identify tools that measure physical, cognitive, sensory (vision, hearing, touch), motivational, and environmental barriers to medication self-management in older adults, and 2) to understand the extent to which these tools assess various barriers.

METHODS: The scoping review was conducted using Arksey and O'Malley's scoping review framework and the PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews checklist. In June 2022, the relevant literature was identified by searching PubMed (MEDLINE), Ovid Embase, Ovid IPA, EBSCOhost CINAHL, APA PsycINFO, and Scopus.

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION: In total, 7235 studies were identified. Following the removal of duplicates, 4607 articles were screened by title and abstract, of which 4253 did not meet the inclusion criteria. Three reviewers reviewed the full texts of the remaining 354 articles; among them, 41 articles, 4 theses and 1 conference abstract met the inclusion criteria. From the included studies, 44 tools were identified that measured a combination of physical, cognitive, sensory, motivational, and environmental barriers (n=19) or only cognition (n=13), vision (n=5), environmental factors (n=3), auditory (n=1), and motivational factors (n=1). The review also examined the psychometric properties of the identified tools and found that most of them had reported validity and reliability data. Several tools have demonstrated promise in assessing a combination of barriers with validity and reliability. These tools include the Self-Medication Assessment Tool (SMAT), ManageMed Screening (MMS), Self-Medication Risk Assessment Tool (RAT), HOME-Rx revised, and Medication Management Ability Assessment (MMAA).

CONCLUSION: This scoping review identified 44 validated tools to measure various challenges that older adults encounter with medication management. However, no tool measures all five barriers (physical, cognitive, sensory, motivational, and environmental) to medication-taking at home. Therefore, utilizing a combination of tools would be most appropriate to measure these different aspects comprehensively. Further research is needed to develop a new comprehensive tool that simultaneously measures various barriers to medication self-management.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

BMC geriatrics - 24(2024), 1 vom: 27. März, Seite 285

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Baby, Bincy [VerfasserIn]
McKinnon, Annette [VerfasserIn]
Patterson, Kirk [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Hawa [VerfasserIn]
Sharma, Rishabh [VerfasserIn]
Carter, Caitlin [VerfasserIn]
Griffin, Ryan [VerfasserIn]
Burns, Catherine [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Guilcher, Sara Jt [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Linda [VerfasserIn]
Fadaleh, Sara Abu [VerfasserIn]
Patel, Tejal [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adherence
Barriers
Journal Article
Medication management
Older adults
Review
Self-management
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 28.03.2024

Date Revised 29.03.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12877-024-04893-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM370218779