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Table 4 Pre and post descriptive statistics of frequency by domain (data are n (%))

From: Evaluating the impact of a polypharmacy Action Learning Sets tool on healthcare practitioners’ confidence, perceptions and experiences of stopping inappropriate medicines

Domain

Strongly disagree

Disagree

Neither agree nor disagree

Agree

Strongly agree

pre

post

pre

post

pre

post

pre

post

pre

post

Perceptions around stopping medicines

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

5 (3.9%)

0 (0%)

15 (11.7%)

5 (3.9%)

62 (48.4%)

62 (48.4%)

46 (35.9%)

61 (47.7%)

Knowledge and information sources

1 (0.5%)

0 (0%)

28 (12.7%)

6 (2.7%)

44 (19.9%)

31 (14.0%)

107 (48.4%)

127 (57.5%)

41 (18.6%)

57 (25.8%)

Perceptions of patients and stopping medicines

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

9 (9.5%)

0 (0%)

31 (32.6%)

16 (16.7%)

50 (52.6%)

60 (62.5%)

5 (5.3%)

20 (20.8%)

Perception of colleagues and stopping medicines

6 (2.1%)

7 (2.4%)

20 (7.0%)

13 (4.5%)

74 (25.9%)

46 (16.0%)

172 (60.1%)

157 (54.7%)

14 (4.9%)

64 (22.3%)

Institutional factors

20 (12.5%)

31 (19.4%)

36 (22.5%)

32 (20%)

51 (31.9%)

24 (15.0%)

48 (30%)

51 (31.9%)

5 (3.1%)

22 (13.8%)