| Literature DB >> 16449709 |
R C Oude Voshaar1, W J M J Gorgels, A J J Mol, A J L M van Balkom, J Mulder, E H van de Lisdonk, M H M Breteler, F G Zitman.
Abstract
About two-thirds of long-term users of benzodiazepines in the population are able to discontinue this drug with the aid of supervised programmes for tapering off. Little is known about the long-term outcome of such programmes, and they have never been compared with usual care. After a 15-month follow-up of a randomised controlled trial comparing such a programme with and without psychotherapy with usual care, we found significantly higher longitudinal abstinence rates in long-term benzodiazepine users who received a benzodiazepine tapering-off programme without psychotherapy (25 out of 69, 36%) compared with those who received usual care (5 out of 33,15%; P=0.03).Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID： 16449709 DOI： 10.1192/bjp.bp.105.012039
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Psychiatry ISSN： 0007-1250 Impact factor: 9.319