ABSTRACT
Objective To investigate the effect of small dose of doxepin combined with psychological behav-ior intervention in the treatment of insomnia.Methods 21 patients with insomnia were selected as the study sub-jects,took doxepin 25mg before going to bed at every night,to the research object and psychological behavior interven-tion by hand,continuous treatment for 8 weeks.Used the method of questionnaire survey before and after two periods of time,assessed by using pittsburgh Sleep Quality mder(PSQI)scale,analysed the correlation between sleep quality and sleep beliefs attitudes.Results After treatment with 8 weeks,subjected sleep quality,sleep difficulties,sleep time,sleep efficiency,sleep disturbance,hypnotic drug use,and daytime functional scores were lower than before treat-ment (t =17.34,16.65,10.54,13.37,11.65,7.66,11.57,all P <0.05 ),the difference of the score of PSQI between after treatment[(5.80 ±0.97)points]and before treatment[(13.34 ±2.28)points]was significant(t =21.27,P <0.01).Conclusion Small dose of doxipin combined with psychological behavior intervention in treating insomnia can improve the sleep quality of patients.