Bensodiazepiner i primärvården

Sammanfattning: Abstract School of Education Växjö University Social Science specialised in Care and Treatment of Juveniles and Substance Abusers C- Essay 10p Titel Benzodiazepines in primary care Authors Taskin Arslan and Mattias Edlund Supervisor Stellan Jeppsson Date March 2006 Number of pages 47 Keyword benzodiazepines, pharmaceutical abuse, tranquillizer, perspective of gender With this essay we have tried to bring up the different causes why there are so many prescriptions of benzodiazepines, the primary cares part in all this and why there are more prescriptions for women than men. The purpose of this study was to increase our knowledge about benzodiazepines, try to find out advantages and disadvantages in case of prescriptions of these preparation and if primary care was aware of these disadvantages in case of prescriptions especially at the matter of prescriptions for women. Some of the questions we asked ourselves were: what kind of risk is connected to benzodiazepines? What kind of responsibility does the doctor have in case of prescriptions of benzodiazepines? How is it that the women constitute the group which receives most prescriptions of benzodiazepines? Our method has been an explorative theoretical study combined with qualitative interviews. In our studies we have found that there is a big awareness about the disadvantages of benzodiazepines prescriptions among the doctors in primary care. And that the conversation between doctor and patient is important for the search of underlying causes. Finally that why women are overrepresented in the matter of benzodiazepine prescription could be due to that women to a greater extent seeks help in non-institutional care than men.