Abstract:
Currently, the issue of insomnia has a highly negative effects on health. Medically, there are various methods to cure such as medicine, meditation, listening to music, or even acupuncture therapy.
The objective of this research, researcher was aims to study the dynamics of insomnia and changes of the electroencephalogram (EEG) after acupuncture at Shenmen (HT7) point. By using The sleep quality questionnaire that was adapted from The Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI) and the changes of EEG as a measuring tools.
The Materials and Methods was an Experimental Research Clinical Trial in Pre and Post Treatments. The study was conducted among the same volunteers. Volunteers were selected from the personnel in emergency division and critical patient unit at Bang Sao Thong Hospital both male and female age range of 20 - 65 years old, and not having any underlying disease or any states affecting the experiment. Ten volunteers were randomized from the group consistent with the criteria, terms and condition. The study was conducted by starting from Make a self-assessment questionnaire. And Brain Wave Recorder before acupuncture.
After acupuncture at Shenmen (HT7) was performed by acupuncture through the skin for about 30 minutes. At the end of the study participants were asked to do The sleep quality questionnaire and measure the changes of the electroencephalogram (EEG) again. Repeats this process ten times for each participant. At the end of the experiment, the results were compared.
As a result of acupuncture at Shenmen point (HT7). The electroencephalogram (EEG) shown that there were increase of Alpha brainwave, Beta brainwave, Theta brainwave, Delta brainwave and Gamma brainwave. The average of Brain waves before and after the process of acupuncture turn out all positives, and from the results of the statistical tests, the difference between the pre-and post-acupuncture brain waves was shown that there was no statistically significant difference at the 0.05 level.
Conclusion: This study showed that when evaluating the quality of sleep assessment, based on a questionnaire that adapted from The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), insomnia deprivation was improved, and the positive feeling changed in a better way.