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Objective To analyze the sleep quality status and its relationship with cardiovascular disease in rural elderly in Yunnan Province. Methods Multistage stratified random sampling method was used to select 1629 residents aged 60 years and over from Ning Er County in Yunnan province. Each participant received questionnaire survey and physical examination. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to analyze the relationship between sleep quality status and cardiovascular disease. Results Among the study population, the overall Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score was 7.48±3.89,and was 6.67±3.69 for males and 8.07±3.92 for females. The prevalence of sleep disorder, hypertension, coronary heart disease and stroke were 56.78%, 52.85%, 8.16% and 8.66%, respectively. Females had higher prevalence of sleep disorder than males (62.81% and 48.55%，P<0.001). The elderly with lower annual average family per capital income and bad access to medical services had higher prevalence of sleep disorder than their counterparts (P<0.001).The elderly with sleep disorder was more likely to suffer from hypertension, coronary heart disease and stroke (P<0.05). Conclusion The prevalence of sleep disorder is high in rural elderly in Yunnan Province. Improving sleep quality among the elderly can prevent and control cardiovascular diseases to a certain degree.
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Objective To observe the effect of Tianmeng Oral Liquid combined with depressant on sexual function of male patient with depression. Methods Male depression outpatients (107 cases) with sexual dysfunction in the processs of treatment in the clinical psychology of the first affiliated hospital of Henan university of Chinese medicine from september 2015 to June 2016 were randomly divided into the control group (55 cases) and treatment group (52 cases). The patients in the control group were po administered with Escitalopram, 10-20 mg/d or Paroxetine, 20-40 mg/d. The patients in the treatment group were po administered with Tianmeng Oral Liquid of 40 mL/d on the basis of the control group. The patients in two groups were treated for four weeks. To evaluate sexual function, depressive symptoms, and sleeping quality by International index of erectile function (IIEF-6) and Conciseness function since the rating scale (BSDSRS-5), Hamilton's depression scale-17 (HAMD-17), and Pittsburgh sleep quality index (PSQI). Results HAMD scores were significantly decreased in both groups after treatment (P < 0.05). HAMD scores of the treatment reduced more obviously than the control group, the difference between the two groups had statistical significance (P < 0.05). Sexual function of the treatment group improved more significantly than the control after treatment (P < 0.05). Sleeping quality of the treatment improved significantly compared with the control after treatment (P < 0.05). Conclusion Tianmeng Oral Liquid combined with depressant Escitalopram, 10-20 mg/d or Paroxetine can increase the sexual function of men with depression effectively and improve depressive symptoms obviously.
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Objective To know the sleeping quality of clinical nurses in Urumqi, and analyze the influencing factors, put forward the corresponding countermeasures for different factors to improves the sleeping quality. Methods Randomly selected 407 nurses in clinical departments as the research objects in Urumqi top three hospitals, using the Pittsburgh sleep quality index scale (PSQI) and general situation questionnaire to investigate, and then analyzed the results of the survey. Results The incidence rate of sleeping disorders in emergency nurses was the highest (80.00%), followed by pediatric, intensive department, internal medicine, surgical department, operating room, outpatient and others was the lowest (39.02%). Gender (t=-2.015, P =0.045), age (F=8.509, P =0.000), establishment(F=3.609, P =0.013) were the influence factors of PSQI scores. Only the difference of the scores of hypnotic drugs between different ethnic groups was significant, P0.05. Conclusions Poor sleeping quality of nurses existed in every department, its sleeping quality status, department, gender, age and establishment have certain correlation, interventions should be strengthened, to improve the overall level of sleeping.
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Objective To study the sleeping quality and correlative factors of key senior middle school students of Beijing. Methods With pittsburg sleeping quality index (PSQI) scale, 344 key senior middle school students participated and completed the questionnaire. Results Percentage of sleep disorder accounted for 24.4% in the senior middle school students;Sleeping time was shorter than 7 hours in total of 61% students. Compared with key class students, sleeping time was shorter(P
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To study the effects of electromagnetic radiation from handsets of cellular telephone on quality of user's sleeping and depression 88 staff with handsets of cellular telephone and 77 staff without handsets of cellular telephone from corporations were selected as the subjects The subjects were investigated by questionnaires on their general health,lifestyle habit,psychological stresses,handset using of cellular telephone,living and working environmental exposure,morbidity and quality of sleeping and depression The data was analyzed by chi square,stepwise regression,Logistic regression,and covariance statistics The prevalence rate of insomnia was higher in user's group significantly ( P