Table 1. Univariate Anaysis Between Users and Non-Users of Benzodiazepines.
| Total N = 735 |
No BDZ N = 234 |
BDZ N = 501 |
P-value | |||||
| Sex (%) | 0.006 | |||||||
| Women | 325 (44) | 96 (41) | 229 (49) | |||||
| Men | 410 (56) | 138 (58) | 272 (51) | |||||
| Age (y ± SEM) | 41.6 ± 0.5 | 41.7 ± 0.9 | 41.5 ± 0.5 | 0.305 | ||||
| Disorder duration (y ± SEM) | 11.5 ± 0.4 | 13.0 ± 0.7 | 10.9 ± 0.4 | 0.035 | ||||
| Legal status (%) | 0.140 | |||||||
| Single/Divorced/Widow | 563 (77) | 158 (78) | 405 (76) | |||||
| Coupled/Married | 172 (23) | 44 (22) | 128 (24) | |||||
| Tobacco & Drugs (%) | ||||||||
| Tobacco | 325 (44) | 87 (43) | 238 (45) | 0.461 | ||||
| Other drugs | 247 (33) | 44 (22) | 203 (38) | 0.001 | ||||
| Mental Disorder | 0.091 | |||||||
| General Disorders | 203 (28) | 27 (13) | 176 (33) | |||||
| Severe Disorders | 532 (72) | 175 (87) | 357 (67) | |||||
| Affective Disorders | 0.005 | |||||||
| No | 349 (47) | 127 (63) | 222 (42) | |||||
| Yes | 386 (53) | 75 (37) | 311 (58) | |||||
| Use of LAI-antipsychotic | 0.001 | |||||||
| No | 323 (44) | 46 (23) | 277 (52) | |||||
| Yes | 412 (56) | 156 (77) | 256 (48) |
Affective disorders included depressive, anxiety-depressive, anxiety, schizoaffective, bipolar and personality disorders. Non-affective disorders included schizophrenia, psychosis, delusional disorders. BDZ = bendozdiazepines, LAI = long acting injectables antipsychotics, SEM = standard error mean.