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Appropriate Medication Use for Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities - A Matter of Life
Sponsor: Vestvagoy Municipality
Summary
The innovation idea is to develop valuable new knowledge about safe drug use in people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDDs). The main goal is to design a framework (routines and processes) that ensures safe drug use and provides qualitatively better services for people with IDDs. Secondary goals are that employees will experience better security when working with medicines, and interact better with people with IDD and relatives by implementing digital support functions. The innovation idea is specifically to develop/improve the following: 1) Medication management: Coordinating routines, procedures and work processes regarding all aspects of drug use, medication handling, and communication between care units for people with IDDs. 2) Medication therapy: Chart review of prescribed medication and gather knowledge about challenges related to drug use in this group. Based on this, we will develop new methods for drug reconciliation and medication reviews to optimize drug use. 3) New framework for safe drug use in the community-based services for people with IDDs.
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
1 Year - 99 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
110
Start Date
2023-08-15
Completion Date
2027-07-31
Last Updated
2025-12-04
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Develop and implement the Framework for safe drug use in people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities
Collection and analysis of drug lists and information about the users. Open / participatory observations of staff and residents during drug handling. Interviews/focus groups with residents, family, staff in the service, GPs and pharmacy staff. Interdisciplinary drug reviews based on the IMM method drug reviews, further developed by the researchers in the project. Design thinking. We use a design process with five stages: empathy, define, generate ideas, prototype and test. This involves user participation and experience to design the most optimal solution for the framework. Evaluate the framework, observations, interviews, questionnaires. Health economic evaluation.
Locations (1)
Vestvågøy Municipality
Leknes, Norway