Use of Psychotropic Drugs in General Medical Geriatric Inpatients
作者:
G. Magni,
F. Schifano,
M. Pastorello,
D. De Leo,
M.G. De Dominicis,
期刊:
Neuropsychobiology
(Karger Available online 1986)
卷期:
Volume 16,
issue 4
页码: 181-185
ISSN:0302-282X
年代: 1986
DOI:10.1159/000118323
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Psychotropic drugs;Medical patients;Elderly;Psychological distress
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
The authors have evaluated the psychotropic drug use patterns and psychological distress (with the Symptom Distress Checklist, SCL-90) amongst 331 elderly medical inpatients. Forty-two percent of the sample took psychotropic drugs during their hospitalization period. The drugs most commonly used were anxiolytics and hypnotics of the benzodiazepine class. Subjects to whom psychotropic drugs were prescribed reported higher psychological distress compared to those not receiving them; however, a score of moderate distress in the depression and sleep disturbances subscales was reported by a relatively high percentage of subjects not receiving psychotropics. Patients taking antidepressants reported scores of psychological suffering higher than those under benzodiazepine treatment: such a difference not only related to the depression subscale, but to the majority of the symptom areas investigated by the SCL-90.
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