Innovative massage program on the quality of sleep and quality of life in working women

• Main Authors: Tang Yi Ting, 唐怡婷
• Other Authors: Huang Yi Ching
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35814964252151435301

碩士 === 國立臺北護理健康大學 === 運動保健研究所 === 103 === With the evolvement of lifestyle in modern society, the sleep time of most working women has been delayed. According to the data of the DGBAS (Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. Taiwan) in past ten years, burdens of working women have been continually raised, and the quality of sleep has been gradually getting worse. The aim of this study is to discuss the effect of innovative massage program regarding the quality of sleep and quality of life on working women. This study adopted prestests of two groups experimental design. Sixty working women were recruited in a SPA center in Taipei. We used randomized controlled trial to assign subjects. Each group included 30 subjects. A 45 minutes innovative massage program was performed once a week and lasted for 4 weeks. We also adopted PSQI scale, SF-36 scale as research tools. Independent samples t-test, paired samples t-test, and analysis of convariance (ANCOVA) were used for data analysis. After 4 weeks innnovative massage program, experimental group showed a significant improvement of PSQI and SF-36 (p＜0.001) after controlling. Howerver, control group were not significant(p＞0.05). The ANCOVA showed a significant difference in the posttests of two groups(p＜0.001). In conclusion, 4 weeks innovative massage program can improve the quality of sleep and quality of life on working women. Enhence, it is suggested that innovative massage program also may be a useful health promotion program in working women.