摘要
Subject Subject Our current century has seen an ever-burgeoning increase in anxiety in all populationsMany forms of therapy have been employed to alleviate the same. An escalating interest in complementary, mind/body, alternative modalities has generated a greater pursuit of acupuncture in the UnitedStates. However, there continues to be a shortsae of literature exploring the relationship between thealleviation at anxiety and the use of acupuncture. In this study, the SAnxiety scale (STAI Form Y-1)of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) will be administered to eighty-nine patients, both beforeand immediately following one acupuncture treatment. The S-Anxiety scale is comprised of twentystatements assassin the subject’s current, "in the moment", feeling. Specifica1ly, apprehension, tension, nervousness and worry are evaluated. The S-Anxiety scale is particularly sensitive to changes intransitory anxiety. A statistical analysis will be performed to determine if there exists any significantdifferences in participants anxiety levels vis-a-vis before and after acupuncture treatment.Objective: All eighty-nine samples are from acupuncture patients of Magnolia Health Center.Each samp1e came to center for acupuncture treatment with different illness.Method: Cases in the study were patients who came to the center for acupuncture treatmentsduring the period of April, May and June of 1997, no restrict for the randomizing. Every case was notified of the study purpose and completed a portion of a questionnaire be fore and immediately followingacupuncture. The acupuncture treatment was datermined according to case condition or illness, no onehad added any more acupoint for the purPOse of study. Immediately following treatment, each personcompleted the second part of the same questionnaire. All of the data was co1lected and analyzed by aprofessional statistician.Results: For eighty-nine samples, all information was processed and analyzed by a statisticianusing standard statistical tools. The details and results will be dis
Subject Subject Our current century has seen an ever-burgeoning increase in anxiety in all populationsMany forms of therapy have been employed to alleviate the same. An escalating interest in complementary, mind/body, alternative modalities has generated a greater pursuit of acupuncture in the UnitedStates. However, there continues to be a shortsae of literature exploring the relationship between thealleviation at anxiety and the use of acupuncture. In this study, the SAnxiety scale (STAI Form Y-1)of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) will be administered to eighty-nine patients, both beforeand immediately following one acupuncture treatment. The S-Anxiety scale is comprised of twentystatements assassin the subject's current, 'in the moment', feeling. Specifica1ly, apprehension, tension, nervousness and worry are evaluated. The S-Anxiety scale is particularly sensitive to changes intransitory anxiety. A statistical analysis will be performed to determine if there exists any significantdifferences in participants anxiety levels vis-a-vis before and after acupuncture treatment.Objective: All eighty-nine samples are from acupuncture patients of Magnolia Health Center.Each samp1e came to center for acupuncture treatment with different illness.Method: Cases in the study were patients who came to the center for acupuncture treatmentsduring the period of April, May and June of 1997, no restrict for the randomizing. Every case was notified of the study purpose and completed a portion of a questionnaire be fore and immediately followingacupuncture. The acupuncture treatment was datermined according to case condition or illness, no onehad added any more acupoint for the purPOse of study. Immediately following treatment, each personcompleted the second part of the same questionnaire. All of the data was co1lected and analyzed by aprofessional statistician.Results: For eighty-nine samples, all information was processed and analyzed by a statisticianusing standard statistical tools. The details and results will be disc
