Comparative Study on Sleep Quality of Cerebral Infarction Patients with Different Types in Sub-acute Phase / 中国中医药信息杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To compare the sleep quality of cerebral infarction patients with different types in sub-acute phase. Method The patients with cerebral infarction targeted to the inclusion criteria were divided into the phlegm-heat group and non-phlegm-heat group according to the syndrome differentiation of TCM. After routine treatment of western medicine for 4 weeks, the sleep quality of patients were evaluated with Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) during the sub-acute phase. Result The scores of subjective sleep quality, sleep duration, sleep efficiency and overall PSQI score in the phlegm-heat group were obviously higher than that in the non-phlegm-heat group (P