Time changes in patterns of benzodiazepine tranquilizers use in the general population: a trend study from the seventies to this century.

• Grant number: 10/17211-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: March 01, 2011
• End date: February 29, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Psychiatry
• Principal Investigator: Márcio Antonini Bernik
• Grantee: Ana Beatriz Ravagnani Salto
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina (FM). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

This study aims at evaluating changes in benzodiazepines patterns of use in the population living in the area surrounding the HC-FMUSP complex in the last thirty years. Comparable data from three studies: Prof. Tancredi's, ECA-SP e Megacity-SP, will be used in this comparison.