Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of study participants stratified by willingness to deprescribe
| 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 |
SD standard deviation
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’ “
bnumbers report the number of patients with no missing information on the respective variable