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Factors Associated With Psychotropic Drug Use Among Community-Dwelling Older Persons: A Review Of Empirical Studies, Philippe Voyer, David Cohen, Sylvie Lauzon, Johanne Collin, Université De Montréal

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Background In the many descriptive studies on prescribed psychotropic drug use by community-dwelling older persons, several sociodemographic and other factors associated with drug use receive inconsistent support. Method Empirical reports with data on at least benzodiazepine or antidepressant drug use in samples of older persons published between 1990 and 2001 (n = 32) were identified from major databases and analyzed to determine which factors are most frequently associated with psychotropic drug use in multivariate analyses. Methodological aspects were also examined. Results Most reports used probability samples of users and non-users and employed cross-sectional designs. Among variables considered in 5 or …