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Work-Related Stressors and Increased Risk of Benzodiazepine Long-Term Use: Findings From the CONSTANCES
Guillaume Airagnes1, Cédric Lemogne1, Romain Olekhnovitch1
1Guillaume Airagnes is with AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest, Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Université Paris Descartes, UMS011, UMR1168, Inserm, Villejuif, France. Cédric Lemogne, Nicolas Hoertel, and Frédéric Limosin are with AP-HP, Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest, Department of Psychiatry and Addictology, Université Paris Descartes, U894, Inserm, Paris, France. Romain Olekhnovitch is with UMS011, UMR1168, Inserm. Yves Roquelaure is with UMR1085, Inserm Irest, Université d'Angers, Angers, France. Marcel Goldberg is with Université Paris Descartes, UMS011, Inserm. Marie Zins is with Université Paris Descartes, UMS011, UMR1168, Inserm.
Abstract:
Objectives. To examine whether stressful job exposure to the public could be associated with having long-term benzodiazepine use.Methods. From the participants included between 2012 and 2016 in the French population-based CONSTANCES cohort, 13 934 men and 19 261 women declared a daily job exposure to the public and rated the frequency of stressful exposure. We examined benzodiazepine long-term use by using drug reimbursement administrative registries. Logistic regressions provided odds ratios (ORs) of benzodiazepine long-term use, with stratification for gender and adjustment for age, education, and area deprivation index. Occupational grade, job strain, depression, self-rated health, and alcohol use disorder were additional stratification variables.Results. Benzodiazepine long-term use was positively associated with stressful exposure to the public ("often or always" vs "rarely or never") in men (OR = 2.2; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.8, 2.8) and women (OR = 1.6; 95% CI = 1.4, 1.9), with dose-dependent relationships (P trends < .001). Adjustments and analyses in subgroups without other individual or environmental vulnerability factors led to similar results.Conclusions. Stressful job exposure to the public increases the risk of benzodiazepine long-term use. Prevention programs aiming at reducing the burden of benzodiazepine long-term use would benefit in targeting this specific population.
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