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Self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – the Tromsø study
PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence and associated factors of self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – The Tromsø Study. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of medication users (n = 10,231) among participants in the Tromsø Study,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9700964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36434564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14573-z |
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author | Walquist, Mari J. Svendsen, Kristian Garcia, Beate H. Bergmo, Trine S. Eggen, Anne Elise Halvorsen, Kjell H. Småbrekke, Lars Ringberg, Unni Lehnbom, Elin C. Waaseth, Marit |
author_facet | Walquist, Mari J. Svendsen, Kristian Garcia, Beate H. Bergmo, Trine S. Eggen, Anne Elise Halvorsen, Kjell H. Småbrekke, Lars Ringberg, Unni Lehnbom, Elin C. Waaseth, Marit |
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description | PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence and associated factors of self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – The Tromsø Study. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of medication users (n = 10,231) among participants in the Tromsø Study, a descriptive analysis of questionnaire data and multivariable logistic regression (n = 9,194). RESULTS: Sixteen percent of medication users expressed a need for more information about own medications. Overall, medication users agreed to a higher degree to have received information from the GP compared to the pharmacy. Concerned medication users and those disagreeing to have received information about side effects had the highest odds for needing more information (OR 5.07, 95% CI 4.43–5.81) and (OR 2.21, 95% CI 1.83–2.68), respectively. Medication users who used heart medications (e.g., nitroglycerin, antiarrhythmics, anticoagulants) (OR 1.71, 95% CI 1.46–2.01), medication for hypothyroidism (OR 1.36, 95% CI 1.13–1.64) or had moderately health anxiety had expressed need for medication information. Whereas medication users with lower education, those that never used internet to search for health advice, and medication users who disagreed to have received information about reason-for-use were associated with lower odds (OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.62–0.91), (OR 0.85, 95% CI 0.74–0.98) and (OR 0.68, 95% CI 0.53–0.88), respectively. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that there is need for more information about own medications in a general population aged 40 years and above and shed light on several characteristics of medication users with expressed information need which is important when tailoring the right information to the right person. |
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spelling | pubmed-97009642022-11-27 Self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – the Tromsø study Walquist, Mari J. Svendsen, Kristian Garcia, Beate H. Bergmo, Trine S. Eggen, Anne Elise Halvorsen, Kjell H. Småbrekke, Lars Ringberg, Unni Lehnbom, Elin C. Waaseth, Marit BMC Public Health Research PURPOSE: To determine the prevalence and associated factors of self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – The Tromsø Study. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of medication users (n = 10,231) among participants in the Tromsø Study, a descriptive analysis of questionnaire data and multivariable logistic regression (n = 9,194). RESULTS: Sixteen percent of medication users expressed a need for more information about own medications. Overall, medication users agreed to a higher degree to have received information from the GP compared to the pharmacy. Concerned medication users and those disagreeing to have received information about side effects had the highest odds for needing more information (OR 5.07, 95% CI 4.43–5.81) and (OR 2.21, 95% CI 1.83–2.68), respectively. Medication users who used heart medications (e.g., nitroglycerin, antiarrhythmics, anticoagulants) (OR 1.71, 95% CI 1.46–2.01), medication for hypothyroidism (OR 1.36, 95% CI 1.13–1.64) or had moderately health anxiety had expressed need for medication information. Whereas medication users with lower education, those that never used internet to search for health advice, and medication users who disagreed to have received information about reason-for-use were associated with lower odds (OR 0.75, 95% CI 0.62–0.91), (OR 0.85, 95% CI 0.74–0.98) and (OR 0.68, 95% CI 0.53–0.88), respectively. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that there is need for more information about own medications in a general population aged 40 years and above and shed light on several characteristics of medication users with expressed information need which is important when tailoring the right information to the right person. BioMed Central 2022-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9700964/ /pubmed/36434564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14573-z Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Walquist, Mari J. Svendsen, Kristian Garcia, Beate H. Bergmo, Trine S. Eggen, Anne Elise Halvorsen, Kjell H. Småbrekke, Lars Ringberg, Unni Lehnbom, Elin C. Waaseth, Marit Self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – the Tromsø study |
title | Self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – the Tromsø study |
title_full | Self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – the Tromsø study |
title_fullStr | Self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – the Tromsø study |
title_full_unstemmed | Self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – the Tromsø study |
title_short | Self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – the Tromsø study |
title_sort | self-reported medication information needs among medication users in a general population aged 40 years and above – the tromsø study |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9700964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36434564 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14573-z |
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