Relevance research on university students’ mental fatigue and TCM syndrome / 国际中医中药杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate and analyze TCM syndrome characteristics, impact factors and internal relationship among the factors of mental fatigue of university students. A preliminary understanding of mental fatigue situation of university students and prevent diseases was acquired in advance. Methods 100 students were randomly selected in Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, of whom 40 were undergraduate students and 60 were post-graduate students. Mental fatigue questionnaire was used to investigate mental fatigue situation for students, and TCM constitution scale was applied to collect TCM syndromes. A body energy survey was also conducted. Results In undergraduate and post-graduate students, the mental fatigue rate was relatively higher, both of them were over 50%of the total numbers, 57.5%(23/40)、61.7%(37/60) respectively. For the fatigue levels distribution in these two groups, the ratios of slight mental fatigue (undergraduate52.5%;post-graduate56.67%) were both higher than those of severe mental fatigue (undergraduate5%;post-graduate5%). In the undergraduate group, the top three biased constitutions among mental fatigue students were yang deficiency (7 out of 2330.43%), qi deficiency (3 out of 2313.04%) and dampness-heat (3 out of 2313.04%). In the post-graduate group, the top three biased constitutions were yang deficiency (11 out of 3729.73%), qi deficiency (6 out of 37 16.22%) and dampness-heat (5 out of 37 13.51%). Conclusion It is easier for university students with biased constitution to suffer from mental fatigue, mostly with yang deficiency, qi deficiency and dampness-heat constitution.