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ACUPUNCTURE FOR
INSOMNIA
INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE REVIEWS AND META-ANALYSES
Effects of acupuncture therapy on insomnia
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Sohyune R. Sok PhD RN,
Postdoctoral Student, School of Nursing, University of
Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Judith A. Erlen PhD RN FAAN
Doctoral Program Coordinator, Professor, School of Nursing,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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Kwuy Bun Kim PhD RN
Professor, College of Nursing Science, Kyung Hee University,
Seoul, South Korea.
Sohyune R. Sok, School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh, 440
Victoria Building, 458 A, 3500 Victoria Street, Pittsburgh, PA
15261, USA.
E-mail:
5977sok@hanmail.net
sok s.r., erlen j.a. & kim k.b. (2003) Journal
of Advanced Nursing44(4), 375–384
Effects of acupuncture therapy on insomnia
Abstract
Background. Acupuncture therapy, commonly used in clinical practice
in oriental cultures, has the potential to produce a positive effect
with patients experiencing insomnia.
Aim. The purposes of this systematic review were: (1) to assess the
trends across intervention studies using acupuncture for insomnia
from 1975 to 2002, (2) to examine dependent variables, and (3) to
evaluate the effects of acupuncture therapy on insomnia in older
people.
Method. Data were collected from November 2001 to January 2003. A
wide range of electronic databases was searched using the keywords
'insomnia', 'acupuncture' and 'experimental design'. Papers were
included if they were published in the English language between 1975
and 2002 and described an experimental study using acupuncture
therapy to treat insomnia. Eleven reports met these criteria.
Conclusion. The
results of this review suggest that acupuncture may be an effective
intervention for the relief of insomnia.
Further research, using a randomized clinical trial design, are
necessary to determine the effectiveness of acupuncture.
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Montakab H.
40 patients with
primary difficulties in either falling asleep or remaining asleep
were diagnosed according to the traditional Chinese medicine,
allocated to specific diagnostic subgroups and treated individually
by a practitioner in his private practice. The patients were
randomized into two groups, one receiving true acupuncture, the
other needled at non-acupuncture points for 3-5 sessions at weekly
intervals. The outcome of the therapy was assessed in several ways,
first and foremost by an objective measurement of the sleep quality
by polysomnography in a specialized sleep laboratory, performed once
before and once after termination of the series of treatments.
Additional qualitative results were obtained from several
questionnaires.
The objective
measurement showed a statistically significant effect only in the
patients who received the true acupuncture.
The subjective,
qualitative assessment was better in the proper treatment group than
in the control group but was not calculated statistically for
methodological reasons.
Based on the results of
this study, it can be concluded that true and individualized
acupuncture indeed shows efficacy in primary sleep disorders.
PMID: 10077713 [PubMed
- indexed for MEDLINE]
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