| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 醫學工程研究所 === 99 === Insomnia is a common health issue. According to research findings, insomnia had higher prevalence rate year by year. Sleep disturbance is associated with major psychiatric disorders and some chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, etc.
Diagnosis of insomnia is mainly by the method of diagnostic interview, few using instruments. The rate of misdiagnosis of insomnia and misuse of hypnotics is high if diagnosis is made only by interviewing. Examination of insomnia by instrument is difficult due to lack of resources and too expensive in Taiwan. So it is time to develop new tools which are cheap and effective to discover the real problem of insomnia.
In our research, computer programs were developed for hand-held equipment to collect data of sleep. Sleep-related questionnaire and diagnostic interview was also done. Data of these diagnostic tools were analyzed and compared.
Twenty three subjects, consisting of 11 non-insomnia participants and 12 psychiatric outpatients completed the experiment. The results showed the data of equipment and questionnaire had good consistence in time of go to bed, wake up, visual analog scale. Data of equipment showed superior information about sleep efficiency and some detailed data. But it showed inconsistence in evaluating about difference of difficulty in falling asleep and fragmented sleep. This method could provide more information for diagnosis of insomnia and resolution of problems.
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