Qigong exercise alleviates fatigue, anxiety, and depressive symptoms, improves sleep quality, and shortens sleep latency in persons with chronic fatigue syndrome-like illness

Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Chan, Jessie S M ^a   Ho, Rainbow T H ^a   Chung, Ka Fai ^a   Wang, Chong Wen ^a   Yao, Tzy Jyun ^b   Ng, Siu Man ^a   Chan, Cecilia L W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DEPRESSION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PITTSBURGH SLEEP QUALITY INDEX; QIGONG; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SLEEP DISORDER ASSESSMENT; SLEEP QUALITY; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 84920517914     PISSN: 1741427X     EISSN: 17414288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/106048     Document Type: Article

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