Charles Janice, Harrison Christopher, Britt Helena
Australian GP Statistics & Classification Centre, University of Sydney, New South Wales.
Aust Fam Physician. 2009 May;38(5):283.
Management of insomnia rose significantly by age, from 0.2% of encounters with patients aged <25 years to 2.7% with patients aged 75 years and over. Insomnia was significantly more likely to be managed for female patients (1.4%) than for males (1.1%). Female patients were therefore significantly over represented at insomnia encounters (66.0%) compared with total BEACH encounters (57.1%), as were patients with Commonwealth concession or Repatriation health cards. Patients new to the practice and patients from non-English speaking backgrounds were under represented at insomnia encounters compared with all encounters (Figure 1).
失眠的治疗率随年龄显著上升，从年龄小于25岁患者就诊次数的0.2%升至75岁及以上患者就诊次数的2.7%。女性患者（1.4%）比男性患者（1.1%）更有可能接受失眠治疗。因此，与总体BEACH就诊情况（57.1%）相比，女性患者在失眠就诊中所占比例显著过高（66.0%），持有联邦优惠卡或退役军人健康卡的患者也是如此。与所有就诊情况相比，新到该诊所就诊的患者以及非英语背景的患者在失眠就诊中所占比例较低（图1）。
