Drug Prescribing Pattern (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) in Banyumas General Hospital

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.019How to use a DOI?

Keywords

GAD, prescribing pattern

Abstract

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is an anxiety disorder with an estimated 6 % of Indonesia’s population. The medication of anxiolytic must be administered appropriately according to the patient’s clinical condition. This is due to the variability of individual responses to anxiolytic drugs. This study was aimed to explore the type of drug, the determinant of patient (age, gender, occupation), and duration of treatment. The study was conducted retrospectively since January 1st 2017 until December 31st 2018 at Polyclinic YANKESWA Banyumas Hospital. The sample of this study were 47 patients who meet the inclusion criteria, who received anti-anxiety drug therapy for 6-24 month, and had a complete list of clinical therapies. The results of the study showed that there were 47 medical record data of patients, with a range of age 22-63 years; and various job statuses. The therapy received by GAD patients was anxiolytic drug such as Benzodiazepines group including Alprazolam (41%), Clobazam (9%), and Lorazepam (11%), SSRIs include: Fluoxetine (6%), Sertraline (14%) and TCA: Amitriptyline (8%).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Peppy Octaviani
AU  - Sunarti
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/10
TI  - Drug Prescribing Pattern (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) in Banyumas General Hospital
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Community Health (ICCH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 82
EP  - 85
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.019
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200204.019
ID  - Octaviani2020
ER  -