患者对药物的环境影响的偏好和态度:一个离散选择实验
在PubMed上查看摘要
概括
此摘要是机器生成的。患者对药物的偏好受环境影响,易用性和成本的影响. 了解这些因素是促进可持续药物护理和减少药物浪费的关键.
科学领域
- 制药科学
- 环境健康
- 健康经济学
背景情况
- 药品在整个生命周期中对全球环境产生重大影响.
- 了解患者对药物的偏好对于开发促进可持续药物实践和减少浪费的干预措施至关重要.
研究的目的
- 研究患者对药物的环境影响的偏好和态度.
- 分析环境问题如何与患者在药物决策中的易用性和成本相互作用.
主要方法
- 在荷兰对慢性药物使用者进行了采用离散选择实验 (DCE) 的横截面调查.
- 基于药物属性,使用隐性类别分析来确定不同的患者偏好群体.
主要成果
- 确定了四个不同的患者偏好群体:以生态为重点 (55.7%),以成本为重点 (20.1%),冷漠 (16.4%) 和生态怀疑 (7.8%).
- 每个群体对环境可持续性的态度各不相同,生态关注和生态怀疑的群体得分更高.
- 所有参与者对药物的环境影响的自我评估知识一般很低.
结论
- 环境可持续性是影响患者药物偏好的重要因素,尽管存在相当大的异质性.
- 为了促进环境可持续的药物护理和解决患者的不同优先事项,需要量身定制的策略.
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