Risk Perceptions in Diabetic Patients Who Have Experienced Adverse Events: Implications for Patient Involvement in Regulatory Decisions

Mikkel Lindskov Sachs; Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong; Morten Colding-Jørgensen; Sven Frokjaer; Per Helboe; Katarina Jelic; Susanne Kaae

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Risk Perceptions in Diabetic Patients Who Have Experienced Adverse Events: Implications for Patient Involvement in Regulatory Decisions

Mikkel Lindskov Sachs, Sofia Kälvemark Sporrong, Morten Colding-Jørgensen, Sven Frokjaer, Per Helboe, Katarina Jelic, Susanne Kaae

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BACKGROUND: Increasingly, patients are expected to influence decisions previously reserved for regulatory agencies, pharmaceutical companies, and healthcare professionals. Individual patients have previously represented their patient population when rare, serious adverse events (AEs) were weighed as part of a benefit-risk assessment. However, the degree of heterogeneity of the patient population is critical for how accurately they can be represented by individuals.

OBJECTIVES: This study aims to explore patients' risk perception of rare, serious adverse effects of medicines with regard to blood glucose-lowering antidiabetics used by the individual patient.

METHODS: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 patients with diabetes with self-perceived serious, but not necessarily rare, AEs (e.g. stroke or valve or bypass surgery). The interviews explored the patients' history of disease, perceptions of the terms rare and serious, and overall levels of risk aversion. A thematic analysis of the interviews, including a consensus discussion, was carried out.

RESULTS: Interestingly, respondents rarely made a clear distinction between medicines-induced AEs and complications related to disease progression. Concerns regarding AEs were apparently diverse but were systematically related to the personal experiences of the respondents. Respondents routinely ignored information about possible rare, serious AEs, unless it could be related to personal experience. In the absence of experience, concerns were focused on common and less serious AEs, thus disregarding rare and more serious events.

CONCLUSION: The study suggests that experience of AEs, related to either medicines or disease, constitutes an important factor of patient risk perception. We therefore propose that serious adverse experiences should be added to the traditional panel of socioeconomic factors that are accounted for when patients are invited to give input on regulatory decisions.

Original language	English
Journal	Pharmaceutical Medicine
Volume	31
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	245-255
Number of pages	11
ISSN	1178-2595
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40290-017-0200-z
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2017

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Risk Perceptions in Diabetic Patients Who Have Experienced Adverse Events : Implications for Patient Involvement in Regulatory Decisions. / Sachs, Mikkel Lindskov; Sporrong, Sofia Kälvemark; Colding-Jørgensen, Morten et al.

In: Pharmaceutical Medicine, Vol. 31, No. 4, 01.08.2017, p. 245-255.

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