Overview
The aim of the DECIdE study is to evaluate the effect of a decision aid (the DECIdE tool) for shared decision making concerning optional prescription drugs on the level of uncertainty-certainty or comfort-inconfort (= decisional conflict) experienced by patients, compared with a condition of routine care without the use of a decision aid.
General practitionners and pharmacists will propose to their patients, complaining of a common symptom for which a drug is usually prescribed or dispensed, to discuss this drug and the symptom in order to reach a shared decision on whether to take it or choose another alternative.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients over 18 consulting a general practitioner or community pharmacy
- Patient complaining of a symptom or requesting a optional prescription drug (clinical situations and medicines pre-defined by expert consensus)
- First use of DECIdE with the healthcare professional for this situation
- Agreeing to take part in the study and to sign the written consent form
- Speaks and understands French
Exclusion Criteria:
- minor patients
- Patients under guardianship, curatorship or safeguard of justice
- Pregnant or breast-feeding women
- Second use of the DECIdE tool in the same situation / for the same drug
- Refusal to take part in the study
- Patient not affiliated to a medical insurance