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

Table 2 Willingness to deprescribe, adjusted for patient characteristics and GP-clusters (n = 284)

Baseline characteristics	Adjusted¹ OR (95%CI) of participants willingness to deprescribe	p-value¹
Sex
Female	0.94 (0.49–1.79)	0.84
Male	ref.
Age, per year increase	0.97 (0.92–1.02)	0.29
Living alone
Yes	1.27 (0.66–2.44)	0.47
No	ref.
Self-management of medication
Yes	0.79 (0.33–1.92)	0.61
No Education level	ref.
Obligatory education	ref.
Apprenticeship	1.63 (0.84–3.16)	0.15
Higher education	3.28 (1.26–8.55)	0.015
Number of medicines, per unit increase	1.01 (0.91–1.12)	0.92

1 Multivariable mixed-effects logistic regression model adjusting for all covariates in the table and for GP-cluster as a random-effect

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