Medicines Information Needs of Individuals Questionnaire (MINI-Q)

Prioritising patient preferences is crucial for high-quality healthcare. Recent decades have seen a focus towards greater patient self-management of health, with corresponding benefits. While a lack of information can lead to dissatisfaction and a lack of engagement, conveying the right information to the patient is likely to increase medication adherence, reduce anxiety and can improve clinical outcomes. Recent work conducted by our group have found that the medicines information needs of individuals tend to be highly variable. We have developed a new tool – The Medicine Information Needs of Individuals – Questionnaire (MINI-Q) as an inpatient clinical tool designed to collect information on a patient’s medicine information needs and preferences. This project aims to test this tool in an inpatient population, and use to inform medicines information provision by health professionals.