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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of study participants stratified by willingness to deprescribe

From: What do older adults with multimorbidity and polypharmacy think about deprescribing? The LESS study - a primary care-based survey

Baseline characteristics

Overall

n = 300

Willing to deprescribea

n = 231 (77%)

Not willing to deprescribea

n = 69 (23%)

p-value

Female, n (%) (n = 300)b

141 (47)

104 (45)

37 (54)

0.21

Age, mean (SD)

(n = 292)

79.1 (5.7)

78.9 (5.7)

79.8 (5.8)

0.24

Living alone, n (%) (n = 298)

100 (34)

76 (33)

24 (35)

0.81

Self-management of medication, n (%) (n = 298)

256 (86)

196 (86)

60 (87)

0.78

Education level, n (%) (n = 299)

   

0.006

 obligatory education

86 (29)

57 (25)

29 (42)

 

 Apprenticeship

146 (49)

114 (49)

32 (46)

 

 Higher education

67 (22)

59 (26)

8 (12)

 

Number of medicines, mean (SD) (n = 294)

8.0 (2.8)

8.0 (2.7)

8.1 (2.9)

0.89

 5–9 medicines

228 (76)

176 (76)

52 (75)

 

  ≥ 10 medicines

72 (24)

52 (24)

13 (25)

0.89

  1. SD standard deviation
  2. aWilling to deprescribe, when answering true/rather true and not willing to deprescribe, when answering don’t know/rather not true/not true to the question: “If my doctor said, it was possible I would be willing to stop one or more of my regular medicines’ “
  3. bnumbers report the number of patients with no missing information on the respective variable