Effect of self point massage to treat subhealthy insomnia of undergraduate students based on TCM discrimination

VernacularTitle:中医辨证自我穴位按摩改善大学生失眠的效果研究
Author: Sheng-Lian DONG ¹ ; Jia-Li TIAN
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1. 河北联合大学护理与康复学院
Keywords: Insomnia; Sub health; Undergraduate students; Point massage
From: Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing 2013;19(15):1757-1759
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To discuss the effect of self point massage on subhealthy insomnia of undergraduate students on the basis of TCM discrimination.Methods By investigating the type of subhealthy insomnia according to TCM,undergraduate students were guided to conduct point massage by themselves for 60 days.Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) was used to evaluate their sleep quality every 30 days before,during and after the treatment.Results The TCM types of subhealthy insomnia in undergraduate students were liver depression forming fire (66.1％),fire excess from Yin deficiency (26.6％),phlegm-heat attacking internally (2.4％),heart-spleen deficiency (1.6％),deficiency of liver qi (0.8％) and others (2.4％).The average score of PSQI was (12.18 ± 2.07) before treatment,(11.23 ± 2.26) 30 days after treatment,(9.06 ± 4.94) 60 days after treatment,and the difference was statistically significant (F =130.71,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions Self point massage is an effective therapy to treat subhealthy insomnia for undergraduate students.