From: Older people’s attitudes towards deprescribing cardiometabolic medication
Satisfaction with medicationa (n = 310) | Willingness to stopa (n = 310) | Burdenb (n = 309) | Appropriatenessb (n = 308) | Concerns about stoppingb (n = 306) | Involvementb (n = 308) | ||||||||
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OR | p | OR | p | Coefficient | p | Coefficient | p | Coefficient | p | Coefficient | p | ||
Age (years) | 1.0 | 0.15 | 1.0 | 0.92 | −0.005 | 0.50 | −0.008 | 0.31 | 0.005 | 0.50 | −0.005 | 0.48 | |
Sex (male) | 0.75 | 0.32 | 0.88 | 0.72 | −0.007 | 0.80 | −0.093 | 0.23 | 0.075 | 0.31 | 0.085 | 0.23 | |
Number of medicines | (≤5) | 0.61 | 0.12 | 0.87 | 0.72 | 0.018 | 0.35 | 0.098 | 0.22 | 0.074 | 0.34 | 0.040 | 0.58 |
(> 10) | 0.61 | 0.36 | – | – | 0.41 | 0.002** | 0.15 | 0.30 | 0.080 | 0.55 | −0.047 | 0.72 | |
Therapeutic area | 0.76 | 0.40 | 0.71 | 0.41 | −0.097 | 0.21 | 0.086 | 0.30 | −0.022 | 0.78 | 0.071 | 0.35 | |
Total model | 0.15 | 0.16 | 0.004** | 0.28 | 0.80 | 0.56 |