Effect of ear point embedding beans combined with emotional care on emotions and sleep of outpatient hypertensive patients
Objective To explore effect of ear point embedding beans combined with emotional care on emotions and sleep of outpatient hyperten-sive patients.Methods Eighty-four hypertensive patients visited Department of Outpatient,Beijing Xiaotangshan Hospital from July 2022 to July 2023 were selected and they were divided into two groups by random number table method,with 42 cases in each group.Control group received routine care,while study group received ear acupoint embedding with beans combined with emotional care on the basis of control group.The inter-vention lasted for four weeks.Blood pressure,emotional state,and sleep quality before and after intervention between two groups were compared.Re-suIts After intervention,systolic and diastolic blood pressure in two groups were lower than those before intervention(P<0.05).After intervention,scores of self-rating anxiety scale and self-rating depression scale in two groups were lower than those before intervention,and study group was lower than control group(P<0.05).Pittsburgh sleep quality index(PSQI)scores at 1,2 and 3 weeks after intervention were lower than before inter-vention,PSQI scores at 2 and 3 weeks after intervention were lower than 1 week after intervention,and PSQI scores at 3 weeks after intervention were lower than 2 weeks after intervention(P<0.05).PSQI scores of study group were lower than those of control group at 1,2 and 3 weeks after intervention(P<0.05).Conclusion Ear point embedding beans combined with emotional care applied in outpatient hypertensive patients can im-prove their sleep quality and emotional state.
Ear point embedding beansHypertensionEmotional careEmotional stateSleep quality