Cornellà de Llobregat community benzodiazepine campaign
Accredited training for clinicians (14 h) and community pharmacists (3 h) on deprescribing and non-drug insomnia care, plus a local awareness campaign using radio, letters, posters and group workshops.
- Years
- 2023–now
- Country
- Spain
- Topic
- Low value carePatient safetySleep
- Asks people to
- Stop
- Strategy
- Multi level community
- Channel
- Clinical settingEventsRadio
- Audience
- CliniciansOlder adultsresidents with chronic benzodiazepine use, primary care staff, pharmacists
Evidence
ObservationalPositive
Benzodiazepine packages dispensed fell 9.8% (12,149 to 10,964) in a year and 21.6% cumulatively by 2025; chronic users 65+ fell 6.3%. No control group.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Cornellà primary care centre (Catalan health service) State local government
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- Training and community-based intervention to reduce chronic benzodiazepine use for insomnia and distress in primary care evaluation · 2026 · DOI 10.1016/j.aprim.2026.103549 · PMID 42302694
Research notes
Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Sponsor wording inferred; abstract names an urban primary care centre.
Record cases/es-cornella-benzodiazepine-campaign.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign