Promoting benzodiazepines and z-drugs deprescribing in the community setting : adapting tools to better engage older adults and healthcare professionals
(2024)
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- Benzodiazepine and z-drugs (BZRA) use in older adults (≥65 years) may involve potentially harmful side effects. Despite clinical guidelines to limit BZRA use to a few weeks only, many older adults take them long-term, showing the need for deprescribing interventions. Leaning on previous research, this thesis aimed at developing tools to promote BZRA deprescribing in older adults living in the community setting. First, a questionnaire evaluating patients’ attitudes towards deprescribing in general was adapted to BZRA, creating a new questionnaire that might facilitate conversations about BZRA deprescribing. Second, a Canadian BZRA deprescribing intervention was adapted. It comprised an educational brochure and a communication tool between the pharmacist and the prescriber. The feasibility of this intervention was then tested in a cluster-randomized controlled trial, showing that implementing and evaluating this intervention was feasible in the Belgian community setting, subject to some modifications in the study conduction procedures.
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Pétein, C. (2024). Promoting benzodiazepines and z-drugs deprescribing in the community setting : adapting tools to better engage older adults and healthcare professionals. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/257545