DECIdE, Shared DECIsion in hEalth : the Real-life Impact Study

Impact Study of the Decision Aid DECIdE on the Decisional Conflict of Primary Care Patients About Optional Prescription Drugs.

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.

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