| Summary: | 碩士 === 南華大學 === 生死學系碩士班 === 105 === People spend one-third of third daily time for sleep. However, insomnia is often seen in both elders and young ones. Sleep deficiency, light sleep, restless sleep, tose and turn and so on are complained by insomniacs. Those problems will affect the day time activities directly or indirectly.
Besides, the promoting effect of acupuncture in treating insomnia have been proved in many previous studies. We like to explore the acupuncture – interventional effects on both sleep quality and quality of life among patients with sleep disorders. In this study, there were 12 out patients, who complaint of sleep disorders, from Chiayi City a regional hospital included. We measured patients’ condition by using Chinese version of the Athens Insomnia Scale (CAIS-8) and the SF-36 (Health Survey- Taiwan Form; SF-36), right before and after the acupunctural intervention. We used software SPSS 12.0 version to analyze the statistical aspects, the percentage, the average, the standard deviation the minimum and the maximum value. Furthermore, we used sample t-test, independent sample t-test, Pearson product poor correlation (Pearson correlation), single factor analysis (ANOVA), and other statistical methods as processing. The results are as follows:
1. Patients with traditional acupuncture intervention before and after sleep scores were group t test, the results of the statistically significant significance, said the intervention of to improve its effectiveness.
2. There was no statistically significant correlation between the SF-36 scores before and after treatment with traditional acupuncture.
3. The scores of SF-36 (r = -. 86, p <.05) before acupuncture intervention were statistically significant and showed a high negative correlation. However, the scores of SF-36 on the scores of acupuncture intervention were not significant.
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