Acupressure and Transcutaneous Electrical Acupoint Stimulation in improving fatigue, sleep quality and depression in hemodialysis patients

American Journal of Chinese Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 407-416

  Tsay, Shiow Luan ^a   Cho, Yi Ching ^b   Chen, Mei Li ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIPEI UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAINAN INSTITUTE OF NURSING   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Acupressure TEAS; Depression; Fatigue; Hemodialysis; Sleep quality

Indexed keywords

ACUPRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEMODIALYSIS; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSOMNIA; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOM; TIME; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUPRESSURE; ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RENAL DIALYSIS; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TRANSCUTANEOUS ELECTRIC NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 4143124440     PISSN: 0192415X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0192415X04002065     Document Type: Article

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