Influence of Health-care Qigong Baduanjin on Mental Health of Patients with Impaired Glucose Tolerance / 广州中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the influence of health-care Qigong Baduanjin on mental health of patients with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) . Methods Eighty-nine IGT patients were sampled from the physical examination center of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and then the subjects were randomly divided into groups A (N=30), B (N=29), C (N=30), which received health education, health education combined with walking exercise, health education combined with Baduanjin separately for one year. The scores of factors of physical and mental symptom checklist (SCL-90) were recorded before and after intervention. Results Compared to those before intervention, factor scores of interpersonal sensitivity and anxiety in group A were decreased obvi ously ( P<0.01) , factor scores of somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, terror, paranoia, psychosis in group B were decreased obviously (P<0.05 or P<0.01), and factor scores of somatization, inter-personal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, paranoia, psychosis in group C were also decreased obviously (P<0.05 or P<0.01) after intervention. Group B had lower factor scores of somatization and interpersonal sensitivity than group A (P<0.05), group C had lower factor scores of somatization, anxiety, and paranoia than group A (P<0.05 or P<0.01), group B had lower factor scores of anxiety than group C (P<0.05) . Conclusion Both Baduanjin and walking exercise can promote mental health of patients with IGT, and the effect of Baduanjin is superior to that of walking exercise.