Table 4 Patient-related factors associated with willingness to stop medicines if the GP, specialist or pharmacist proposes this (multiple regression analyses)
|  | Willingness if GP proposesa (n = 185) | Willingness if specialist proposesa (n = 173) | Willingness if pharmacist proposesa (n = 183) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
p-value | aOR | 95% CI | p-value | aOR | 95% CI | p-value | aOR | 95% CI | |
Appropriateness sum score (reversed) | 0.03 | 0.45 | 0.22–0.93 | 0.07 | 0.54 | 0.27–1.06 | – | – | – |
Burden sum score | 0.03 | 1.86 | 1.06–3.28 | 0.046 | 1.72 | 1.01–2.91 | – | – | – |
Concerns sum score | < 0.001 | 0.26 | 0.13–0.51 | < 0.01 | 0.42 | 0.23–0.76 | – | – | – |
Number of medicines | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.21 | 0.87 | 0.71–1.08 |
Using > 1 glucose-lowering medicineb | 0.02 | 0.43 | 0.21–0.87 | 0.07 | 0.53 | 0.27–1.04 | – | – | – |
Using lipid-lowering medicinec | 0.11 | 2.00 | 0.86–4.67 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Education leveld | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Junior high school | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.02 | 0.31 | 0.12–0.79 |
 Senior high school | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.03 | 0.44 | 0.20–0.93 |
 University degree | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0.03 | 0.40 | 0.17–0.94 |