Developing and Evaluating Interventions to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing of Antibiotics in Primary Care

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?

Conditions

• Antibiotic Prescribing by GPs for URTI

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Persuasive communication

The persuasive intervention aimed to reinforce the GP's beliefs about the positive consequences of managing sore throat without prescribing antibiotics.

BEHAVIORAL

Action plan

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

BEHAVIORAL

General intervention

No additional information was provided; the general information was the information already available to GPs about antibiotic prescribing.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Aberdeen

  collaborator OTHER

• Newcastle University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Southampton

  collaborator OTHER

• Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Scottish Primary Care Research Network

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Scottish School of Primary Care

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• University of Dundee

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Shaun Treweek, PhD · University of Dundee

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2010-11-30

Primary Completion

2012-05-31

Completion

2012-09-30

Countries

• United Kingdom

Study Locations