Clinical practice for unspecified anxiety disorder in primary care.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

Clinicians face difficulties in making treatment decisions for unspecified anxiety disorder due to the absence of any treatment guidelines. The objective of this study was to investigate how familiar and how often primary care physicians use pharmacological and nonpharmacological approaches to manage the disorder.

Methods

A survey was conducted among 117 primary care physicians in Japan who were asked to assess the familiarity of using each treatment option for unspecified anxiety disorder on a binary response scale (0 = "unfamiliar," 1 = "familiar") and the frequency on a nine-point Likert scale (1 = "never used," 9 = "frequently used").

Results

While several benzodiazepine anxiolytics were familiar to primary care physicians, the frequencies of prescribing them,

SUBMITTER: Sakurai H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11114420 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature