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  • Les psychotropes et le vieillissement normal: une perspective psychosociale et socio-économique*

  • Guilhème Pérodeau, Adèle Jomphe Hill, Lisette Hay-Paquin, Élise Amyot
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement / Volume 15 / Issue 4 / Hiver/Winter 1996
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    29 November 2010, pp. 559-582

  • The goal of this study was to examine the reaction (anxiety, depression, and helplessness) and adaptive strategies (problem-solving and emotion-reducing) of community-dwelling elderly, confronted by one specific chronic stressor. We have conducted three face-to-face home interviews on a monthly basis with a follow-up interview seven months later. There were 237 psychotropic drug users and non-users, of high or low socio-economic status. Not only were low socio-economic psychotropic drug users more anxious about the targeted hassle of the week, but they also relied on and used more problem-solving strategies than non-drug users. It is suggested that psychotropic drug use be looked at as a strategy like any others rather than as passive behaviour when facing daily hassles. Moreover, using a high number of coping strategies is not synonymous with being good at coping with chronic stress. Various recommandations for clinical intervention are put forward.