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Table 3 Questions about prescribing. Replies to the question “Over the last three months, how would you describe the level of your prescribing of [type of psychotropic], in relation to the medical needs of your patients?”. Figures are n (% of prescribers) for replies Very high through Very low; n (% of non-missing) for non-prescribers, and n (% of all respondents, n = 516) for missing

From: Attitudes and behaviour towards psychotropic drug prescribing in Swedish primary care: a questionnaire study

 

Replies

 

Missing

 

Very high

Somewhat

high

Neither one

nor the other

Somewhat

low

Very low

Have not

prescribed

 

Type of psychotropic

Antidepressants (n = 498*)

13 (3)

61 (12)

369 (74)

51 (10)

4 (1)

10 (2)

8 (2)

Anxiolytics/hypnotics (n = 502*)

12 (2)

100 (20)

292 (58)

86 (17)

12 (2)

6 (1)

8 (2)

Antipsychotics (n = 279*)

7 (3)

12 (4)

168 (60)

50 (18)

42 (15)

227 (45)

10 (2)

  1. *Number of prescribers