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Developing and Evaluating Interventions to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing by General Practitioners of Antibiotics for Upper Respiratory Tract Infections: an RCT to Compare Paper-based and Web-based Modelling Experiments
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Persuasive communication, Action plan, and 1 other intervention for Antibiotic Prescribing by GPs for URTI. Completed, enrolled 270 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
1. Do paper-based and web-based intervention modelling experiments (the methodology we are developing) identify the same predictors of GP behaviour regarding prescribing of antibiotics for upper respiratory tract infections? 2. Can a web-based IME system provide trialists with richer and more predictive information upon which to base the development of behavioural change interventions than paper-based IME systems?
Study Details
Timeline
Interventions
The persuasive intervention aimed to reinforce the GP's beliefs about the positive consequences of managing sore throat without prescribing antibiotics.
This intervention was an action plan, supporting the GP to deal with two difficult prescribing situations: 1) a distressed patient (or often distressed parent of a child patient) 2) a patient demanding an antibiotic
No additional information was provided; the general information was the information already available to GPs about antibiotic prescribing.