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Table 1 Use of psychotropic medications for patients using legal, illegal and no benzodiazepines.

From: Effects of legal and illegal use of benzodiazepines at acute admission to a psychiatric acute department

 

Legal (n = 89)

Illegal (n = 30)

No (n = 108)

All (n = 227)

P

Demographics

     

   Women1 (%)

56 (63)

16 (53)

50 (46)

122 (54)

Ns

   Age2

45.1

35.5

36.0

39.5

<0.001

Use of medications

     

   Antipsychotics1 (%)

31 (35)

4 (13)

31 (29)

66 (29)

Ns

   Antidepressants1,3 (%)

34 (38)

10 (33)

23 (21)

67 (30)

0.031

   Mood stabilizers1 (%)

12 (13)

4 (13)

9 (8)

25 (11)

Ns

   Number of prescribed psychotropic medications, not including benzodiazepines4

1.58

1.17

0.96

1.23

<0.001

  1. 1Chi-square test with 95% confidence intervals computed for each square if Chi-square test is significant.
  2. 2One-Way ANOVA test with Post Hoc Tamhane's tests, legal users were older than no users (P < 0.001) and older than illegal users (P = 0.004).
  3. 3No users of benzodiazepines used less antidepressants than legal users.
  4. 4Kruskal-Wallis tests with Post Hoc Mann- Whitney U tests, legal users used more other psychiatric medications than no users (p < 0.001).