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Qualitative Study of Long-Term Sedative-Hypnotic use Patterns

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Chang-Wei Chen , Chien-Ming Yang ,Yaw- Sheng Lin and Yun-Lin Tsai

Hypnotics are the most common choice of treatment for insomnia. Clinically, high proportion of hypnotic users is long-term user. However, studies showed disagreements over the effectiveness and safety of long-term use of hypnotics. Adopting the methods of the grounded theory, this research has conducted a series of in-depth interviews in order to understand the psychological experience and to construct a behavioral theory of the long-term hypnotics users. Twenty-two long-term users of hypnotics have been interviewed with well-trained interviewer. This research has found that long-term hypnotic users could be divided into three pattern groups: “transitional modality”, “contradictory control”, and “inertia balance”. It is an... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2325-9639.1000184

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