Compliance With Antibiotic Treatment in General Practice

NCT ID: NCT01291251

Last Updated: 2012-04-24

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 270 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-02-28
• Study Completion Date: 2012-02-29

Brief Summary

The guidelines of The Norwegian authorities concerning the use of antibiotics in general practice state that for several common diseases such as pneumonia and tonsillitis, antibiotics should be given four times daily instead of three times daily. The study´s aim is to see whether the patient compliance is significantly reduced in antibiotic regimes of 3 or 4 daily doses as compared to 1 or 2 daily doses.

Detailed Description

All patients given antibiotic tablets, independent of diagnosis and medicament, are included. All patients give a written consent. Within a week after the end of the treatment all patients are contacted by one of the authors and asked a few standardized questions concerning their compliance with the treatment.

Conditions

Patient Compliance

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Any patient given antibiotics for any cause

Exclusion Criteria

• Use of mixture instead of tablets
• Tablets administrated by public health care services

• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Norwegian Medical Association

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Torunn Bjerve Eide

MD

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Mette Brekke, Ph D

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

University of Oslo

Locations

Hisøy legekontor

Arendal, Aust-Agder, Norway

Froland legekontor

Frøland, Aust-Agder, Norway

Countries

Norway

Other Identifiers

VH-TBE-1

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id