Insomnia in general practice. Results from NSW General Practice Survey 1991-1992.

Abstract

This study shows general practitioners can change their management of insomnia and that change is most likely to occur when the problem is new, rather than old. The decreased emphasis on drug treatment in the general practice management of anxiety and depression may reflect the change in psychiatric teaching for these conditions. Further, most of the publicity about benzodiazepines has been in relation to their use for anxiety disorders. Doctors were interested in learning about advances in the understanding of sleep disorders and their non-drug management.