Acupressure Improves Sleep Quality of Psychogeriatric Inpatients

Abstract

Acupressure may be an effective means of improving sleep quality of psychogeriatric inpatients.

Effect of self-acupressure for symptom management: A systematic review

“…Review of the full articles resulted in exclusion of an additional 15 studies. 3,[8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] Studies were excluded because they did not report self-acupressure, did not directly compare acupressure and placebo/control, did not include extracted clinical outcomes, were duplicate studies, or were not original articles. At the end of the review process, 10 studies (eight RCTs and two quasi-RCTs) out of 793 articles were selected for inclusion in this review ( Figure 1).…”

Sleep Among Long-Term Care Residents in China: A Narrative Review of Literature

“…The Chinese Version PSQI was tested and a cut point of greater than 5 was determined to discriminate poor from good sleepers in Taiwanese (Tsai et al, 2005). The Chinese Version PSQI has been widely used in Taiwan (Chen et al, 2015; Lu, Lin, Chen, Tsang, & Su, 2013). To be consistent with the cut point greater than 5, some recent studies in Mainland China also adopted global score greater than 5 as the cutoff to define good and poor sleepers (Li et al, 2012; Luo et al, 2013).…”

Effect of auricular acupressure for postpartum insomnia: an uncontrolled clinical trial

“…Lu et al . () provided acupressure (involving shenmen, Yangchuan and neiguan) to 60 psychogeriatric inpatients, participants in the study group showed greater improvements ( p < 0·05) in PSQI index than control group after four weeks treatment. Fan et al .…”