An observational study in Insomnia, sponsored by China Medical University Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 20 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2017-05-24.
Sponsored by China Medical University Hospital · Observational
Insomnia is one of the most main diseases of civilization in the world, which chronic insomnia is up to 30% in Taiwan under the latest statistics and a common disease which appears to sleep difficultly, sleep interrupted, wake up early or wake up still tired. Long-term persistence of these symptoms will lead to the occurrence of mental illness and then affect people's emotional behavior and cognitive memory, showing that insomnia is an important modern health issues. Recently, "individual response patterns" was proposed by modern medicine. This thinking process and spirit seems to be compatible with the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) therapy of "Differential Treatment". The purpose of this study, the Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), commonly used to quickly screen for insomnia patients and the evaluation of Western medicine efficacy in Western medicine clinic, and investigation of Syndrome Type of TCM to find out whether with Syndrome Type of TCM and AIS in the associated factors, and confirm the necessity and importance of Syndrome Type of TCM, for future reference and basis for the development of integrated medicine.
In the cross-section study with an interview on survey, sampling Miaoli County an Chinese medicine clinic, in line with standard sampling of 200 patients with insomnia were recruited. The questionnaires contained two instruments including Athens Insomnia Scale (AIS), and Syndrome Type of TCM questionnaire. Cross-table, chi-square test, variance analysis and Pearson product-moment correlation was used to find the relation.
Insomnia is a common sleep disturbance, there were more than a quarter of people with sleep disorders, the prevalence with more and higher, seriously affecting the health and quality of life. The Athens Insomnia Scale (referred to as AIS) can help physicians more accurately diagnose and understand the state of insomnia patients. The purpose of this study was investigated the correlation among the disease status, treatment and AIS assessment, hoping enough traditional Chinese physician and Western physician's clinical reference. Methods: This study used the cross-sectional questionnaire survey with the convenience sampling method. Screened 200 patients according to the diagnostic criteria for insomnia and conducted a survey from the local clinic at Miaoli County.
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Exclusion Criteria:
those with unsatisfactory sleep quantity and/or quality (difficulty with sleep induction, awakenings during the night, early morning awakening, total sleep time, and overall quality of sleep), complaint of a minimum frequency (at least three times a week) and duration (1 month), marked distress caused by the sleep problem and/or interference with ordinary activities of daily living
Questionnaires and Data analysis
Scores for each sleep dimension on the AIS questionnaire compared to Syndrome Type of TCM questionnaire. The AIS questionnaire contains 8 items which are rated on 0-3 scale ("0" means "no problem", "1" means "mild problem", "2" means "marked problem", "3" means "severe problem"). For each dimension, item scores are coded, summed, and transformed on to a scale from 0 (best sleep) to 24 (worst sleep) as an individual's sleep outcome. Syndrome Type of TCM questionnaire contains 6 patterns: pattern of yin deficiency with effulgent fire, pattern of deficiency of both heart and spleen, pattern of liver depression transforming into fire, pattern of phlegm-heat harassing internally, pattern of heart and gallbladder qi insufficiency, the other patterns as well and case numbers are counted as an TCM pattern's outcome. Finally, study the distribution law of insomnia's TCM pattern identification and relative factors of AIS.
Time frame: Patients were estimated any sleep difficulty during the period of last 4 weeks and then finished record about 15-20 minutes. A copy was done after 2 weeks. From date of randomization until the date of final documented progression, assessed 2 months.
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