The relationship of subjective sleep quality and cardiac autonomic nervous system in postmenopausal women with insomnia under auricular acupressure

Menopause

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 638-645

  Kung, Yen Ying ^a,b   Yang, Cheryl C H ^a,c   Chiu, Jen Hwey ^a,b   Kuo, Terry B J ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c Sleep Research Center   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Auricular acupressure; Heart rate variability; Insomnia; Postmenopause

Indexed keywords

ACUPRESSURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BODY MASS; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HOT FLUSH; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MENOPAUSE RATING SCALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRETEST POSTTEST DESIGN; SLEEP; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP QUALITY;

ACUPUNCTURE POINTS; ACUPUNCTURE, EAR; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 79958834414     PISSN: 10723714     EISSN: 15300374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/gme.0b013e31820159c1     Document Type: Article

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