"At the time I only wanted to relieve stress": Exploring motivation for behaviour change in long-term hypnotic users.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Motivating patients to discontinue long-term benzodiazepine receptor agonist (BZRA) use for insomnia remains an important challenge in primary care because of the medication's unfavourable risk-benefit profile. Previous studies have shown that understanding the complexity of patients' motivation is crucial to the primary care physician for providing effective interventions efficiently. Theoretical frameworks about behaviour change show that motivation is a multi-layered concept that interacts with other concepts, which aligns with a holistic perspective or implementation of the biopsychosocial model.

Aim

Exploring primary care patients' views and ideas on what factors helped or hindered them in discontinuing long-term BZRA use, in relation to motivation as concept

SUBMITTER: Coteur K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10205632 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature