中医药技术对老年人的生活质量有影响。
Elderly quality of life impacted by traditional Chinese medicine techniques.
机构信息
ABACO/Sohaku-in Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
出版信息
Clin Interv Aging. 2010 Oct 1;5:301-5. doi: 10.2147/CIA.S10615.
BACKGROUND
The shift in age structure is having a profound impact, suggesting that the aged should be consulted as reporters on the quality of their own lives.
OBJECTIVES
The aim of this research was to establish the possible impact of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) techniques on the quality of life (QOL) of the elderly.
SAMPLE
Two non-selected, volunteer groups of Rio de Janeiro municipality inhabitants: a control group (36 individuals), not using TCM, and an experimental group (28 individuals), using TCM at ABACO/Sohaku-in Institute, Brazil.
METHODS
A questionnaire on elderly QOL devised by the World Health Organization, the WHOQOL-Old, was adopted and descriptive statistical techniques were used: mean and standard deviation. The Shapiro-Wilk test checked the normality of the distribution. Furthermore, based on its normality distribution for the intergroup comparison, the Student t test was applied to facets 2, 4, 5, 6, and total score, and the Mann-Whitney U rank test to facets 1 and 3, both tests aiming to analyze the P value between experimental and control groups. The significance level utilized was 95% (P < 0.05).
RESULTS
The experimental group reported the highest QOL for every facet and the total score.
CONCLUSIONS
The results suggest that TCM raises the level of QOL.
背景
人口年龄结构的转变正在产生深远的影响，这表明老年人应该作为自己生活质量的报告者参与其中。
目的
本研究旨在确定中医（TCM）技术对老年人生活质量（QOL）的可能影响。
样本
两个来自巴西里约热内卢市的非选择性、志愿者群体：对照组（36 人），未使用 TCM；实验组（28 人），在 ABACO/Sohaku-in 研究所使用 TCM。
方法
采用世界卫生组织（WHO）制定的老年人 QOL 问卷，即 WHOQOL-Old，并采用描述性统计技术：均值和标准差。Shapiro-Wilk 检验用于检查分布的正态性。此外，基于组间比较的正态分布，应用学生 t 检验分析第 2、4、5、6 个方面和总分，以及 Mann-Whitney U 秩检验分析第 1 和第 3 个方面，这两种检验均旨在分析实验组和对照组之间的 P 值。使用的显著性水平为 95%（P<0.05）。
结果
实验组在每个方面和总分上的 QOL 报告最高。
结论
结果表明 TCM 提高了 QOL 水平。
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